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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours. Firm yet flexible paperback cover with flaps like a dust jacket. CLEAN!! No marks. Might as well be new. Appears unread. . . . . . . Publisher Synopsis: It might be thought we could do without another account of an Irish childhood and a wet-behind-the-ears arrival in London, but we couldn't do without this one. He is in fact a relishably odd fish.'Memories aren't true. But you can be true to them.' This comes near the end and defines the half-heard strain of stubborn honourableness that holds together the humourous melancholy of this memorable book. P.J. Kavanagh, The Spectator; Young is like Orwell's Henry Miller, getting on with his own life while momentous events surge on beyond his control.At one point Young is game enough to admit that 'poetry is a state of panic where some poor souls suffer for a time before they go to repose', but he has hardly turned his back on poetry in writing this book, which is highly poetic in its subjectivity, in its fine dissection of feeling, in its refusal to simplify people and so present them as 'characters'. I shall treasure Young's book. Crispin Jackson, The Literary Review; I have not laughed so much since my first reading of The Third Policeman. This book is an oddity, but a beautiful oddity, which goes from high comedy to deep pathos in the flick of a semi-colon. The final impression is of a haunting sadness, as in all the best comic writing. Alannah Hopkin, The Irish Times; Augustus Young. is a highly sophisticated writer and a very funny one. If there is any justice in the world, this book ought to become classic. What makes it so successful is that it is all done with smoke and mirrors, and it is done superbly. -- David McLaurin, The Tablet. Seller Inventory # 82010
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Trade paperback with French fold flaps. General wear to cover edges/corners. Laid in is an author signed post card: "Jan 07 Dear D-, For your library. best wishes Augustus." Content pages are clean and unmarked. 159 pages. Seller Inventory # 393566
Book Description kart., broschiert. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Aufl. 159 S., in englisch. Einband leicht berieben/bestoßen, minimaler Knick an einer Ecke, sonst sehr gut erh. ISBN: 9781904027379 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 380. Seller Inventory # 225505
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Seller Inventory # 003030