A haunting and often hilarious warts and all account of growing up in a small rural community near the seaside town of Bray,County Wicklow in the days before television; of sheep's brains for Sunday dinner and senna pods everySaturday to keep you 'regular'; of the curious goings-on in the winter of 1953/54 during aseven month stay a Dublin hospital; of the excitement among the young at the arrival ofthe sensational new music called Rock-n-Roll, and thecomically desperate measures taken to keep adolescenthormones in harness. A wonderfully evocative trip into 1950s Ireland. Praise for Wicklow Gold: "I loved this book...The author is to be congratulated. This is athoroughly enjoyable novel." Anna Cooke, BOOKS IRELAND
A haunting and often hilarious warts and all account of growing up in a small rural community near the seaside town of Bray,County Wicklow in the days before television; of sheep's brains for Sunday dinner and senna pods everySaturday to keep you 'regular'; of the curious goings-on in the winter of 1953/54 during aseven month stay a Dublin hospital; of the excitement among the young at the arrival ofthe sensational new music called Rock-n-Roll, and thecomically desperate measures taken to keep adolescenthormones in harness. A wonderfully evocative trip into 1950s Ireland. Praise for Wicklow Gold: "I loved this book...The author is to be congratulated. This is athoroughly enjoyable novel." Anna Cooke, BOOKS IRELAND
This bibliography, the first volume in the new Conrad Studies series published in cooperation with The Joseph Conrad Society (UK), collects and annotates impressions and memories of Joseph Conrad by his family, friends, and acquaintances. It covers full length memoirs as well as newspaper and magazine articles, and in its wide sweep offers abundant details about the novelist’s personality and life. Of particular value is Martin Ray’s emphasis on difficult-to-trace items and the in-depth coverage of Conrad’s trip to the United States in the spring of 1923. An essential tool for the scholar, this book can also be read with pleasure for the light it throws on Conrad the man.
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