SWEET LIBERTY Travels in Irish America
O'CONNER, Joseph
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Détails bibliographiques
Titre : SWEET LIBERTY Travels in Irish America
Éditeur : Picador, London
Date d'édition : 1996
Reliure : Hard Cover
Etat : Fine
Etat de la jaquette : Fine
Edition : First Edition, First Impression.
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'A fabulously droll, unsentimental, and craic-laden report on the haunts of the Gael taking in a wide range of political and historical references along its way. Many of the people the authors meets are so doggedly Irish they make him feel like an Englishman at a Sinn Fein rally, which gives the book a fascinating air of being a report from a doubly foreign land' Glasgow Herald
Award-winning novelist Joseph O'Connor nurtured a passion for all things American from his childhood. As an adult he came up with the perfect tribute to that obsession; he would visit all the nine American towns, within nine different states, that are called Dublin, together with all the great cities and one-horse towns in between. Along the way he wittily deconstructs the legends of a whole pantheon of Irish American heroes, from John F. Kennedy to Billy the Kid, and takes a quick detour to finally answer that most important question: was Elvis really Irish?
The result is a hilarious, poignant, thought-provoking book that celebrates the breathtaking diversity of the Irish influence on America and actually manages to find a town called Dublin, somewhere on the planet, that doesn't have a single pub within its limits.
'He has written a book full of laughs and smiles, skillfully basted with well-brewed blarney' New York Times
'O'Connor holds up a mirror to the America that we see but don't often notice' San Francisco Chronicle
'O'Connor is an equal-opportunity skewerer of Americans and Irish Americans and is at his best when flourishing the inimitable self-lacerating wit of his own kind' Boston Globe
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