The Hungry Grass

Zusatztext A heart-breaking aria for the unloved life ... The Hungry Grass offers a remarkable elegy for squandered opportunity and has lost none of its potency in the forty years since publication' BookWitty. Informationen zum Autor Richard Power was born in Waterford, south Ireland. He became a civil servant in Dublin, but at weekends and in the evenings wrote. He published his masterpiece, The Hungry Grass, in 1969. A year later he died suddenly at the age of 41. Declan Kiberd is Ireland's greatest living critic, internationally celebrated for his work on literature and colonialism. He is the author of Inventing Ireland , Ulysses and Us and Irish Classics . He has won many literary prizes and is currently Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame in the USA. Klappentext A quiet, engaging novel about the death of a priest in 1950s Ireland and a world on the cusp of change. Zusammenfassung A quiet, engaging novel about the death of a priest in 1950s Ireland and a world on the cusp of change.

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Product details

• Authors: Richard Power, Power Richard
• Assisted by: Michael Schmidt (Editor), Declan Kiberd (Introduction), Kiberd Declan (Introduction)
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.09.2016
• EAN: 9781784977412
• ISBN: 978-1-78497-741-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Apollo; Apollo
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Irische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), FICTION / Literary, Fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary