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Colm Tóibín Examines the Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

"A father...is a necessary evil," according to Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses. But Colm Tóibín would hazard a guess that James Joyce genuinely felt this way about his father. This is just one nugget of truth from Tóibín's latest non-fiction Mad, Bad, Dangerous To Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce (Scribner).…
Meagan Foy
October 26, 2018
FictionThrillers

A Wintry Murder Mystery That Will Give You the Shivers: “The Well of Ice”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/The-Well-of-Ice-1.jpg “Never open a book with weather,” the late bestselling crime novelist Elmore Leonard sternly advised. But Leonard was wrong. Here’s how Andrea Carter begins her Irish mystery novel, The Well of Ice (Oceanview): “…the fire crackles gently in the grate… “‘It’s snowing,’ he says…” Carter’s richly detailed descriptions of…
Sharon Geltner
November 10, 2020
Fiction

Sally Rooney Depicts the Highs and Pitfalls of Two Teens in Love

sSally Rooney’newest novel, Normal People (Hogarth) is an engaging page-turner focusing on the shifting relationship between two teenagers from Ireland. This propulsive novel from the author of Conversations with Friends was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, with little wonder. Connell is a smart, popular athlete with a working class single mother,…
Jennifer Blankfein
May 22, 2019
Author Discovery Zone

Ursula Masdal

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Ursula-Masdal-author-pic-300x300.jpg Ursula Masdal Children's Fun book about a family of six children finding adventure through the year, draws from her Irish heritage and her own animal-oriented family. URSULA MASDAL was born in Ireland and moved to London, England at an early age. She was educated in a convent. Surrounded by her…
BookTrib
September 16, 2019