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The Laughter of Mothers
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Laughter of Mothers af Paul Durcan, 9781846557538
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
144
ISBN-13:
9781846557538
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1846557534
Udg. Dato:
15 nov 2012
Størrelse i cm:
16,5 x 19,9 x 1,3
Oplagsdato:
15 nov 2012
Forfatter(e):

The Laughter of Mothers

Engelsk
Paperback 2012
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''Thank you, O golden mother, / For giving me a life,'' says Paul Durcan in this brilliant new collection, a poignant tribute to ''the first woman I ever knew''. Sheila MacBride came from a political family – her uncle John MacBride was executed in 1916 for his part in the Easter Uprising – but when Sheila married into the ''black, red-roaring, fighting Durcans of Mayo'' she was obliged to give up a promising legal career. These poems commemorate his mother as Paul Durcan remembers her playing golf, reading Tolstoy, and initiating him in the magic of the cinema. He recalls her compassion and loyalty when he was committed to a mental hospital in adolescence and how she endured the ordeal of her old age.

Durcan also muses upon the beauty of Greek women and questions our need for newspapers and the new religion of golf. He is beguiled by a beggar woman, enraged by a young man picking his nose on the Dublin–Sligo commuter train, and gets into difficulty at the security gate of Dublin airport.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
144
ISBN-13:
9781846557538
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1846557534
Udg. Dato:
15 nov 2012
Størrelse i cm:
16,5 x 19,9 x 1,3
Oplagsdato:
15 nov 2012
Forfatter(e):
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