He did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only story A semi-autobiographical novel from the author of The Green Fool and The Great Hunger A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon. Patrick Kavanagh's Tarry Flynn is an idyllic and ...
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He did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only story A semi-autobiographical novel from the author of The Green Fool and The Great Hunger A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon. Patrick Kavanagh's Tarry Flynn is an idyllic and beautifully evocative account of life as it was lived in Ireland in the 1930s.
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New. A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn-poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins-the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all-or escape over the nearest horizon. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150. 2000. paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Very Good. A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn-poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins-the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all-or escape over the nearest horizon. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains good-very good. 2000. paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
Add this copy of Tarry Flynn to cart. $33.87, very good condition, Sold by Literary Cat Books rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Machynlleth, Powys, WALES, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1975 by Martin Brian & O'Keeffe.
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Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0856160806. Dustjacket in plastic protective cover. Remnants and/or residue of sticky tape on covers, endpapers and/or dustjacket. With library stamps and labels. Slight wear to spine, covers, corners and dustjacket.; Ex-Library; 256 pages.
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Good. No Jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Good copy with some general wear. some light edge rubbing. some small creases on covers. pages clean and unmarked.
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