Sweet Liberty

Travels in Irish America

Joseph O'Connor (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2009
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-953245-3 (ISBN)

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Joseph O'Connor's love affair with all things American led to an extraordinary tour of the United States to visit the nine different towns called Dublin, as well as some of the great cities and tiny hamlets in between. Along the way he wittily deconstructs the legends of a whole pantheon of Irish American heroes, from John F. Kennedy to Billy the Kid, and takes a quick detour to finally answer that most important question: was Elvis really Irish?

The result is a hilarious, poignant and unforgettable book that celebrates the breathtaking diversity of the Irish influence on America and actually manages to find a town called Dublin, somewhere on the planet, that doesn't have one single pub within its limits...

Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. His novels include Cowboys and Indians (Whitbread Prize shortlist), Star of the Sea (Irish Post Award for Fiction, France's Prix Millepages, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year), Redemption Falls, and Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book Novel, 2011). In 2012 he won the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature. His work has been published in thirty-five languages.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.6.2009
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	270 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-09-953245-X / 009953245X
ISBN-13	978-0-09-953245-3 / 9780099532453
Zustand	Neuware