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A wild people
- Title
- A wild people / Hugh Leonard.
- Author
- Leonard, Hugh.
- Publication
- London : Methuen, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR6062.E7 W54 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Leonard L. Milberg Irish Theater Collection NjP
- Description
- 275 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "TJ's progress through a doomed friendship with 'Thorn' Thornton ('In my Father's oven there are many pies, and I want a finger in every one of them') imbrangles him in the staging of a Plautus satire, retitled Lust and performed at night on a hurricane-whipped bog, as well as the most traumatic awards dinner of TJ's chequered career. His affair with Josie drags him from clandestine dinners in Dublin to the high drama of a ransom mission in Florence. His job as archivist to great Western filmmaker Sean O'Fearna involves him in nailbiting interactions with the fearsome Widow O'Fearna." "And throughout A Wild People there plays out the story of TJ's foundering marriage to the enigmatic but never-to-be-underrated Greta: a marriage that moves from couplehood in a cottage to uneasy truce in a Martello tower, and reaches its crisis with a car's night-time plunge into the sea ..."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Source (note)
- Ex copy is gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of Paul Muldoon.
- ISBN
- 0413759601
- 9780413759603
- LCCN
- 2001431580
- OCLC
- ocm46432723
- 46432723
- SCSB-1225765
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library