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The first in a two-volume memoir, "Company" takes as its theme the curious fact that as a young poet in 1950s Dublin and Paris, John Montague adopted "bohemia" as a surrogate family, having been abruptly separated at the age of four from his own family, and the country of his birth, America. Plunging into the bohemian world, he embraced older poets, the likes of Patrick Kavanagh and Robert Graves, as parent pictures. The ghosts of their friends who people "Company" include Samuel Beckett, his neighbour and friend in Paris for a decade, and the 'inspired lunatic', Brendan Bahan, in Dublin. The book begins with the much-neglected Mrs Yeats, "considering that she helped foster the greatest poet of the century", and ends with Montague's relationship with Ted Hughes.
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- PublisherDuckworth
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0715630164
- ISBN 13 9780715630167
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages190
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 190 pages + 8 leaves of illustrations. Original publisher's cloth, spine lettered gilt, with original pictorial unclipped dust jacket. This is the first volume of John Montague's memoir and gives an evocative account of a phenomenally vibrant era in poetry and letters, told by one who lived at its very centre. separated from his own family at the age of four in the 1930s, John Montague threw himself into the literary life of 1950s Dublin and Paris as into the arms of a surrogate family. Basking in the freedom of the bohemian world, the ghosts of the great poetic figures who populate Company include Samuel Beckett, a friend and neighbour in Paris for a decade, and in Dublin , the 'inspired lunatic' Brendan Behan. Neat gift inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise a near fine copy without any damage, library stamps, inscriptions or other markings. Seller Inventory # 003043
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