Over the Backyard Wall: A Memory Book: A Memoir Book - Softcover

Kilroy, Thomas

 
9781843517498: Over the Backyard Wall: A Memory Book: A Memoir Book
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1843517493 ISBN 13: 9781843517498
Verlag: The Lilliput Press Ltd, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

According to Thomas Kilroy, his captivating memoir materialized in response to a cataract operation in 2006, shocking his memory into being and imparting him with a uniquely tactile and sensuous perception of his own past. Over the Backyard Wall describes a coming of age embodied by escape, self-discovery and a struggle to contend with the rigid culture of a small Irish town in Co. Kilkenny during WWII, with parents representing both sides of the civil war conflict of the 1920s. He describes encounters with fellow Kilkenny artists Tony O Malley and Hubert Butler, and writers such as Flannery O Connor during his tour of the southern US states in the 1950s. In keeping with Kilroy s previous works, Over the Backyard Wall utilizes the silences of the past to liberate the imagination, making use of social and political history to reinvigorate the shard-like nature of his own narrative memory.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thomas Kilroy was born on Greenview Terrace, Callan, Co. Kilkenny and studied at University College Dublin. He was play editor at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and later sat on the board of Field Day Theatre Company. He became Professor of English at UCG. He is currently living in Mayo and is a member of the Royal Society of Literature, Aosdána and the Irish Academy of Letters

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Verlag
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1843517493
ISBN 13 
9781843517498
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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