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He did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only story

A semi-autobiographical novel from the author of The Green Fool and The Great Hunger

A man''s mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon.

Patrick Kavanagh''s Tarry Flynn is an idyllic and beautifully evocative account of life as it was lived in Ireland in the 1930s.



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Tarry Flynn

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 28/09/2000
      ISBN13: 9780141183619, 978-0141183619
      ISBN10: 0141183616

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      He did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only story

      A semi-autobiographical novel from the author of The Green Fool and The Great Hunger

      A man''s mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon.

      Patrick Kavanagh''s Tarry Flynn is an idyllic and beautifully evocative account of life as it was lived in Ireland in the 1930s.



      Trade Review
      A work of art * Irish Times *

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