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The Poor Mouth

A Bad Story About the Hard Life

By Flann O'Brien

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| Paperback | 9781564780911

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The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its residents. Potatoes constitute the basis of Continue

The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its residents. Potatoes constitute the basis of his family's daily fare, and they share both bed and board with the sheep and pigs. A scathing satire on the Irish, this work brought down on the author's head the full wrath of those who saw themselves as the custodians of Irish language and tradition when it was first published in Gaelic in 1941.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 128 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1564780910
  • ISBN-13: 9781564780911
  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
  • Publish date: 1996-03-01
  • Dimensions: 210 mm x 140 mm x 10 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
  • In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani
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