Description
| Product ID: | 9781843516590 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IE |
| Title: | This Tumult |
| Authors: | Author: Caroline Preston |
| Page Count: | 274 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Irish Gaelic |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In a gripping narrative that spans four generations and encompasses the battlefields of Syria and Egypt, the Australian outback, night sorties over Germany, English airfields and the horrors of a Sumatran prison camp, this is a harrowing story of hardship and heroism, based on an Irish family's experience. As well as the original text, this special sixtieth anniversary edition of J.P. Donleavy''s cult novel has a foreword by the actor and director Johnny Depp (who plans to produce a film version); an exchange of letters between Donleavy and the late Arland Ussher; a selection of archival photographs of TCD in the early 1950s, and pages from the original manuscript. Banned in Ireland until 1968, Dorothy Parker wrote ofthe novel, ‘stunning . . . brilliant . . . The Ginger Man is the picaresque novel to stop them all. Lusty, violent, wildly funny, it is a rigadoon of rascality, a bawled-out comic song of sex’. |
| Imprint Name: | The Lilliput Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | The Lilliput Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-05-01 |
