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No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien

No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien

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No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann OBrien was the first full-length biography of Flann OBrien, published in 1989. It is a perceptive, sympathetic, and authoritative portrait of a writer and his times, praised by James Joyce, Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas, and others.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 392 pages
Publication date: 26 February 2019
Publisher: New Island Books


No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann OBrien was the first full-length biography of Flann OBrien, published in 1989. Rich in background, anecdote, and social history, it is an extraordinary portrait of a writer and his times, perceptive, sympathetic, and authoritative. Flann OBrien (aka Brian ONolan) was born in Tyrone in 1911 and worked as a civil servant for many years. He also developed an alter ego, Myles na Gopaleen, whose satirical column in The Irish Times soon acquired legendary status. At Swim-Two-Birds, his first novel, appeared in 1939 and was praised by James Joyce, Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas, and others. His second novel, The Third Policeman, failed to find a publisher at the time but has since been acknowledged as one of the most important novels to come out of Ireland in the twentieth century. With a foreword by acclaimed author Kevin Barry and striking redesign, No Laughing Matter is an undisputed classic of Irish literary biography.

No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann OBrien was the first full-length biography of Flann OBrien, published in 1989. Rich in background, anecdote, and social history, it is an extraordinary portrait of a writer and his times, perceptive, sympathetic, and authoritative. Flann OBrien (aka Brian ONolan) was born in Tyrone in 1911 and worked as a civil servant for many years. He also developed an alter ego, Myles na Gopaleen, whose satirical column in The Irish Times soon acquired legendary status. At Swim-Two-Birds, his first novel, appeared in 1939 and was praised by James Joyce, Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas, and others. His second novel, The Third Policeman, failed to find a publisher at the time but has since been acknowledged as one of the most important novels to come out of Ireland in the twentieth century. With a foreword by acclaimed author Kevin Barry and striking redesign, No Laughing Matter is an undisputed classic of Irish literary biography.

Weight: 442g
Dimension: 137 x 214 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781848407145

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