THE GREEN FOOL by Patrick Kavanagh ( 9780141184203 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE GREEN FOOL

By:

Patrick Kavanagh

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0141184205

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9780141184203

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Publisher:

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

22 February, 2001

Series:

Penguin Modern Classics

Pages:

272

Description:

Presents an account of the author's Irish rural upbringing that describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge of poverty, sustained by the land and an insatiable love of gossip. This title includes tales of schoolboy skirmishes, blackberrying and night-time salmon-poaching.

Synopsis:

Time hardly mattered in the village of Mucker, the birthplace of poet and writer Patrick Kavanagh. Full of wry humour, Kavanagh's unsentimental and evocative account of his Irish rural upbringing describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge of poverty, sustained by the land and an insatiable love of gossip. There are tales of schoolboy skirmishes, blackberrying and night-time salmon-poaching; of country-weddings and fairs, of political banditry and religious pilgrimages; and of farm-work in the fields and kicking mares. Kavanagh's experiences inspired him to write poetry which immortalized a fast-disappearing way of life and brought him recognition as one of Ireland's great poets.

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