The Various Lives of Marcus Koe - Softcover

Brinsley MacNamara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0947962956 ISBN 13: 9780947962951

Publisher: Anvil Books (Childrens Press)

Synopsis

Irish man of letters MacNamara is peraps best known for his brilliantly perceptive satire, The Valley of the Squinting Windows (1918), but it is this, his sixth novel, published in 1929, which is considered his most innovative work.... It is a fascinating example of early-twentieth century Irish writing, in which tradition follow writers such as Flann O'Brien and John Banville."" - Publishers Weekly. ""[This is] easily the author's best book.... The novel is a fabulist satire, or a satirical - fantasy. The novel has variously been characterised as a meditation on the autonomy of literature, on the immortality of the artist, existence, non-being and reality."" - Rüdiger Imhof, The Irish Times. ""A good addition to literature collections."" - Library Journal.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Published in 1929, this comic novel is set in MacNamara's fictional Irish village of Garradrimna. The plot follows Igoe, the town cobbler, as he relates the events of his life. A good addition to literature collections.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Anvil Books (Childrens Press)
• ISBN 10: 0947962956
• ISBN 13: 9780947962951
• Binding: Paperback