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The Best Of John B Keane: Collected Humorous Writings

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Availability:In StockContributor:John B. KeanePublish date:1999-01-01Pages:365
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mercier PressISBN-13:9781856352659ISBN-10:185635265XUPC:9781856352659Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.40 x 5.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCAWVF1DV5

John B. Keane is known nationally and internationally as a successful playwright, handling tragedy and comedy with equal art, and as a prose fiction writer of great invention and skill. Yet an equal claim to fame is made by the hundreds of short pieces which have been published in more than a dozen highly popular collections, their titles ranging from the polemical to the surreal, from Inlaws and Outlaws to Is the Holy Ghost Really a Kerryman? Now harvested into a single volume, they represent the distillation of the experience of a funny, witty, wise and passionate observer of the bright tapestry of Irish life. John B. Keane's topics naturally include his lifetime love affair with his native county of Kerry. Yet even the Kingdom must give way to his fealty to his remarkable home town of Listowel. All human life is there, and he tells its story in a remarkable procession of remarkable characters and in rare humorous glimpses of his own career. There are mouth-watering disquisitions on food and paeans of drink, and since Kerry people do not live by bread alone, there is much about their two other preoccupations - love and words. The Best of John B. Keane is a collection to prize and an ideal bedside book or travelling companion.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Mercier PressISBN-13:9781856352659ISBN-10:185635265XUPC:9781856352659Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.40 x 5.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCAWVF1DV5
Keane, John B.: - John B. Keane, one of Ireland's most prolific and respected literary figures, died on 30 May 2002 at the age of 73, after a long and difficult battle with cancer. He was born in Listowel, County Kerry and it was here that he spent his literary career, running a pub which provided him with inspiration for his characters and ideas. He remains one of Ireland's best-loved and best-selling authors. His plays Sive, The Field, and Big Maggie are widely regarded as classics of the modern Irish stage and jewels in a crown which also includes such popular hits as Sharon's Grave, The Year of the Hiker, Many Young Men of Twenty, The Man from Clare, Moll and The Chastitute, and The Year of the Hiker. It was not just in his plays that John B. Keane managed to portray all aspects of humanity with both wit and truth. He also wrote many fine novels, including The Contractors, A High Meadow, and Durango. Also a writer of essays, short stories, and letters, his humorous words live on in Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane, More Celebrated Letters, The Best of John B. Keane, and The Short Stories of John B. Keane.
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