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      Tarry Flynn

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      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 esc...

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      Description

      Product ID:9780141183619
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Series:Penguin Modern Classics
      Title:Tarry Flynn
      Authors:Author: Patrick Kavanagh
      Page Count:192
      Subjects:Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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      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.

      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.


      Imprint Name:Penguin Classics
      Publisher Name:Penguin Books Ltd
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2000-09-28

      Additional information

      Weight150 g
      Dimensions196 × 129 × 14 mm