Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce Toibin Colm
From the multiple award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating look at Irish culture, history, and literature through the lives of the fathers of three of Ireland's greatest…
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From the multiple award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating look at Irish culture, history, and literature through the lives of the fathers of three of Ireland's greatest writers--Oscar Wilde's father, William Butler Yeats's father, and James Joyce's father--"Thrilling, wise, and resonant, this book aptly unites T ib n's novelistic gifts for psychology and emotional nuance with his talents as a reader and critic, in incomparably elegant prose" (The New York Times Book Review).Colm T ib n begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university and where three Irish literary giants came of age. Oscar Wilde, writing about his relationship with his father stated: "Whenever there is hatred between two people there is bond or brotherhood of some kind...you