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Hardcover The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman: And, the Brother Book

ISBN: 1903650607

ISBN13: 9781903650608

The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman: And, the Brother

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Along with Joyce and Beckett, Flann O'Brien] constitutes our trinity of great Irish writers. And who is funnier?- Edna O'Brien The cream of Flann O'Brien's comic tour-de-force, the Keats and Chapman... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Would be five stars if it came with the first bit blun off

A welcome compilation of the incomparable Myles marred only by a thoroughly cack-handed introduction by Jamie O'Neill, whose sole qualification for the job it seems is having written something called At Swim, Two Boys--a novel apparently, set against the backdrop of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, about the love that blossoms between two boys. Shudder. Seriously though, I haven't read this much cartoon Irish claptrap in prefatory remarks since I ran across Malachy McCourt's acknowledgements in his ghastly little memoir, A Monk Swimming. If O'Neill's smugly contemptuous and entirely unwarranted swipe at the Catholic Church doesn't give you the full measure of this imposter's stunted perspective, then his trite and tired rehearsal of the Irish way with the English language certainly will. My advice is skip the introduction, better yet yank it completely, and start straight in on Flann, a joy as ever from start to finish. Saw Eamon Morrissey do his thing too so I did, back in the eighties, and he done full justice to your man up above in the bed I can tell you.
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