Sweet Liberty: Travels in Irish America - Couverture rigide

O'Connor, Joseph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0330333224 ISBN 13 : 9780330333221

Editeur : Picador, 1996

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'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droll, unsentimental, and craic-laden report on the haunts of the Gael taking in a wide range of political and historical references along its way.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

Revue de presse :

"One is reminded of vintage Bill Bryson...O'Connor is an engaging fellow, an affable kind of chap who could make a cross-continent Greyhound bus ride pass in a jiffy" (Scotsman)

"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droll, unsentimental, and craic-laden report on the haunts of the Gael taking in a wide range of political and historical references along its way.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)

"He has written a book full of laughs and smiles, skillfully basted with well-brewed blarney" (New York Times)

"The laureate of the rising Irish generation, he combines that demotic wit of Roddy Doyle, the social concern of Dermot Bolger and the structural guile of Colm Toibin. A signficant writer of a very contemporary kind" (Irish Times)

"O'Connor holds up a mirror to the America that we see but don't often notice" (San Francisco Chronicle)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0330333224
• ISBN 13: 9780330333221
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384