Hungry Grass - Softcover

Power, Richard.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853710091 ISBN 13: 9781853710094

Publisher: Poolbeg Press, 1988

Synopsis

At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born. Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man - dies at a reunion of his seminary colleagues. As this masterly novel unfolds, we are taken through the years that formed this troublesome priest, who knew his life had been a failure. The Hungry Grass is a sharply witty and moving novel of a world on the cusp of change.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Power was born in Waterford, south Ireland. He became a civil servant in Dublin, but at weekends and in the evenings wrote. He published his masterpiece, The Hungry Grass, in 1969. A year later he died suddenly at the age of 41.

Review:

'The very best portrait of a priest in Irish fiction ... It is a chilling yet deeply compassionate study of a man whose growth is stunted both by choice and by circumstances. The environment is perfectly realised; the small clashes, the irritations, the sense of static life, the greed and ambition of small-town politics ... This is a very fine novel' Irish Times.

About this edition

• Publisher: Poolbeg Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 1853710091
• ISBN 13: 9781853710094
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 255