- Published: 15 August 2005
- ISBN: 9780712697552
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $24.99
Maeve Brennan
Wit, Style and Tragedy: An Irish Writer in New York
- Published: 15 August 2005
- ISBN: 9780712697552
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $24.99
'A biography to savour and treasure. Angela Bourke is as expert on Irish history as she is on the cultural ambience of the male-dominated New Yorker. Her book has wit, sensitivity and insight; everything that Brennan, herself, would have approved of.'
Frances Spalding, Daily Mail
'Hugely entertaining and thought-provoking, and upsetting and funny, and tender and wise.'
Roddy Doyle
'A labour of love and a profound study of literary life in 20th-century America.'
Roy Foster, Financial Times
'This book needed to be written and Angela Bourke was the perfect author...meticulously researched, detailed and beautifully written.'
Evening Herald
'Bourke merges beautifully the small milestones in the young Maeve's life with the large public events that were going around her...She deftly builds up a tapestry-like texture of Maeve Brennan's young life, which the author herself so successfully mined in her fiction.'
Irish Times
'Bourke has done us all a tremendous service in writing this book.Not least because it compels one to rush immediately to read Brennan's work.Bourke is a meticulous and thorough researcher.'
Sunday Tribune
'thorough biography'
Helen Zaltman, Observer