Yeats Is Dead!: A Mystery by 15 Irish Writers
“I think he was dead before I shot him.”With these auspicious words begins a murder mystery so utterly unlike any other that it took fifteen of Ireland's finest writers (working well below their peak) to bring it to its unlikely conclusion.
“I think he was dead before I shot him.”With these auspicious words begins a murder mystery so utterly unlike any other that it took fifteen of Ireland's finest writers (working well below their peak) to bring it to its unlikely conclusion.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375727566 (0375727566)
Publish date: June 11th 2002
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 259
Edition language: English
There are many, many one liners in this to rock yer chops but after a while the lack of a story that you can keep a tabs on begins to gall. I am sure that I would have loved this to death earlier in my life but have had to discard it for something/anything else.Chapter One is by Roddy Doyle - "I thi...
Well, of course he is; in fact, has been for some 60 years now. But that's not the point. The point is, or at least seems to be, that "Yeats Is Dead!" is the unpublished last work of the doyen of Irish literature himself, James Joyce. Or is it? Or are the 600 pages of undecipherable scribble that ar...
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