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Title: Aran Islands, The
Author: SYNGE J M
Illustrator: YEATS JACK B
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 27/05/2008
Imprint: SERIF
Price: $24.95
Publishing status: Active
?Go to the Aran Islands. Live there as if you were one of the people themselves, express a life that has never found expression. J.M. Synge did exactly as W.B. Yeats suggested and, revisiting these harsh yet beautiful specks of land off Irelands west coast over a period of five years, created a literary masterpiece. Synge immersed himself in the islanders lives as they steered their curaghs through Atlantic waves, mourned their dead, celebrated weddings, and suffered the horrors of eviction. The Aran Islands weaves their stories with Synges own and the result, as Colm Tibn has observed, is that Unlike most travel books of 100 years ago, it has not dated at all. This is the first paperback edition in which Jack B. Yeatss unforgettable drawings, commissioned for the first Dublin edition, have appeared alongside Synges haunting prose. Samuel Beckett was a lifelong admirer of Yeatss extraordinary craftsmanship before Ted, one can simply bow, wonder-struck.
ISBN: 9781897959565
Dimension: 196mm X 130mm
Pages: 192