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Brendan Behan
Birth date: February 09, 1923
Died: March 20, 1964
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A Cruel Man Delighting in Flowers
A Cruel Man Delighting in Flowers rated it 12 years ago
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...
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wodehousing rated it 14 years ago
An Irishman’s account of life in New York. Well, at least that’s what it’s supposed to be. Brendan Behan was a playwright who wrote a play called The Hostage (which he mentions about 500 times) and claims to have a insurmountable love for New York City. But his book is about 50% Irish nostalgia and ...
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