Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

Author: Colm Toibin (Columbia University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From Colm T ib n, the formidable award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history, and literature told through the lives and work of three men--William Wilde, John Butler Yeats, and John Stanislaus Joyce--and the complicated, influential relationships they had with their complicated sons. Colm T ib n begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the...Read more