The Yellow Book

by Derek Mahon

Book Overview

In The Yellow Book, the home-seeking traveler--"a decadent who lived to tell the story"--finds lodgings in our fierce fin de si cle under the roof of his Dublin attic flat. Amid echoes from dead writers, "clouds of unknowing" from his "last Camel," and ghosts from his own life, the poet muses wisely and wittily on our wound-down decade and expiring double millennium. These twenty-one absorbing, sometimes mordantly funny, and always delightful meditations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916390810
• ISBN13: 9780916390815
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
• Length: 57 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"