2010, ISBN: 9780861216987

Gebundene Ausgabe, Erstausgabe

DW. 305pp. Introduction by D.J. Taylor. Near fine in very sl. soiled wrapper, The Independent, London 2010, Methuen & Co, London, 1962. First Edition - this copy inscribed by the aut… Mehr…

DW. 305pp. Introduction by D.J. Taylor. Near fine in very sl. soiled wrapper, The Independent, London 2010, Methuen & Co, London, 1962. First Edition - this copy inscribed by the author. 8vo. 287pp. Illustrated with photographs. Blue boards with silver lettering to spine. A very bright copy, just a little bumped at head and base of spine. In quite stained, nicked and chipped dust wrapper. Neat name of former owner. "The first comprehensive study of new British drama: the movement which began in May 1956 with the first performance of 'Look Back in Anger' and has since brought forward such varied and provocative personalities as Brendan Behan, Harold Pinter, Shelagh Delaney, N.F.Simpson, Alun Owen, John Arden and Arnold Wesker" - blurb.. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair., Methuen & Co, London, 1962, Heinemann, London, 1961. First Edition, first printing. 8vo. 234pp. Purple cloth lettered and ruled in gold at spine. With a portrait frontispiece and five photographs. Top- and fore edge spotted and some further spotting to plates and adjacent leaves, and to occasional leaf margins. Quite a nice bright copy in lightly edge worn dust wrapper with several taped repairs to edges. The autobiography of Brendan Behan's brother, recounting their Dublin tenement childhood of the twenties and thirties.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good., Heinemann, London, 1961, Vision Press, 'Vision Critical Study' series, London, 1979. First Edition. 189pp. Green boards lettered in gold at spine. In fine state with dust wrapper, just lightly faded at spine panel and a little dust marked at rear.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine., Vision Press, 'Vision Critical Study' series, London, 1979, Blackwater Press, 1997. From Booklist Writer, playwright, braggart, wit, liar, drunkard, quarreler, shit--Brendan Behan was a mass of contradictions. Simultaneously creative and destructive, funny and offensive, charming as heck and hell to get along with, he made friends easily and enemies almost as quickly. He packed so much into his short life--smuggling bombs for the IRA in his teens, international recognition as a writer in his early 30s, death at 41--that a biographer is hard-put to contain him in a mere book. Still, O'Sullivan pressed on, valiantly collecting every scrap of information he could about Behan, including lost letters from prison, hitherto inaccessible files in Britain, forgotten articles, and personal interviews, and reporting everything of interest and then some. At times the mass of facts and memories threatens to overwhelm, and O'Sullivan, a graceful, forceful writer, labors like the devil to find order in the chaos of Behan's life. Find an order he does, though, transforming the heap of letters, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and transcriptions Behan left behind into a life story as compelling as the one Behan actually lived. Jack Helbig --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of Gift inscription on end page. Jacket lightly soiled, otherwise in very nice condition.. Not Indicated. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good., Blackwater Press, 1997<

1997, ISBN: 0861216989

[EAN: 9780861216987], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Blackwater Press], ENGLISH LITERATURE, Biography & Autobiography|General, Biography & Autobiography|Literary, Jacket, From Bookli… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780861216987], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Blackwater Press], ENGLISH LITERATURE, Biography & Autobiography|General, Biography & Autobiography|Literary, Jacket, From Booklist Writer, playwright, braggart, wit, liar, drunkard, quarreler, shit--Brendan Behan was a mass of contradictions. Simultaneously creative and destructive, funny and offensive, charming as heck and hell to get along with, he made friends easily and enemies almost as quickly. He packed so much into his short life--smuggling bombs for the IRA in his teens, international recognition as a writer in his early 30s, death at 41--that a biographer is hard-put to contain him in a mere book. Still, O'Sullivan pressed on, valiantly collecting every scrap of information he could about Behan, including lost letters from prison, hitherto inaccessible files in Britain, forgotten articles, and personal interviews, and reporting everything of interest and then some. At times the mass of facts and memories threatens to overwhelm, and O'Sullivan, a graceful, forceful writer, labors like the devil to find order in the chaos of Behan's life. Find an order he does, though, transforming the heap of letters, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and transcriptions Behan left behind into a life story as compelling as the one Behan actually lived. Jack Helbig --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of Gift inscription on end page. Jacket lightly soiled, otherwise in very nice condition.<