John B Keane

An Irish Christmas Feast (eBook, ePUB)

The Best of John B. Keane's Christmas Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the rich folk culture of County Kerry, John B. Keane brings new life to old customs in his portrayals of the special holiday dreams and everyday shortcomings of country people during the Christmas season. With enough good cheer to warm the heart throughout the Christmas season and the long nights of winter, Keane's playful volume revisits the Christmases eccentrically celebrated by the likes of Dotie Tupper and Johnny Naile, the doughty Canon Doyle and deaf Canon Cornelius Coodle, the amiable spendthrift Aenias Mackson and Hiccups O'Reilly, who disappears one Christmas for seven years.

Keane bears delightful witness to the strengths and failings, the trials and triumphs, of the simple but not so ordinary folk of rural Ireland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mercier Press
• Seitenzahl: 569
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781856359900
• Artikelnr.: 38364591

Autorenporträt

John B. Keane, one of Ireland's most prolific and respected literary figures was born in Listowel, County Kerry. He spent his literary career, running a pub which provided him with inspiration for his characters and ideas. He remains one of Ireland's best-loved and best-selling authors. His plays Sive, The Field and Big Maggie are widely regarded as classics of the modern Irish stage. Other plays include Sharon's Grave, The Year of the Hiker, Many Young Men of Twenty, The Man from Clare, Moll and The Chastitute. His novels include The Contractors, A High Meadow and Durango.