Borstal Boy
by:
Brendan Behan (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780879234157 (0879234156)
Publish date: September 1st 1994
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Irish Literature,
Ireland
Behan has an engaging style and plays around with such things as phonetic spelling in an interesting and creative way for genuine impact. The narrative flow is sometimes strangely truncated and other times heavily languid, which is where it loses star-value for me... Yes, this kind of approach marri...