Green Fool

Kavanagh, Patrick

ISBN 10: 0140040056 / ISBN 13: 9780140040050

Published by Penguin, 1979

About this Item

1979 Penguin Paperback Edition. Very good+ clean tight binding.

Seller Inventory # ABE-8269175126

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Green Fool
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140040056
• ISBN 13: 9780140040050
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Ireland
  • 20th Century Penguin Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Time hardly mattered in the village of Mucker, the birthplace of poet and writer Patrick Kavanagh. Full of wry humour, Kavanagh's unsentimental and evocative account of his Irish rural upbringing describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge of poverty, sustained by the land and an insatiable love of gossip. There are tales of schoolboy skirmishes, blackberrying and night-time salmon-poaching; of country-weddings and fairs, of political banditry and religious pilgrimages; and of farm-work in the fields and kicking mares.

About the Author

One of the major figures in the modern Irish poetic canon, Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) was a post-colonial poet who released Anglo-Irish verse from its prolonged obsession with history, ethnicity and national politics. His poetry, written in an uninhibited vernacular style, focused on the 'common and banal' aspects of contemporary life.