A Guest at the Feast, 9781761264368
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Life’s bleakness and richness intertwine in literature, politics, and self.
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A Guest at the Feast

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    7 November 2022

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Summary

A Feast of Words: Essays on Life, Literature, and Loss

A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.

From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín delineates the bleakness and strangeness of life and also its richness and its complexity. As he reveals the shad…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781761264368
ISBN-10:1761264362
Author:Colm Tóibín
Publisher:Pan Macmillan Australia
Imprint:Picador Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:7 November 2022
Weight:408g
Dimensions:232mm x 155mm x 45mm
About The Author

Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of ten previous novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, and The Magician, and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibín is the current Laureate for Irish fiction.

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