No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O’Brien by Anthony Cronin

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Title: No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of …

Publisher: Grafton Books

Publication Date: 1989

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As NewVery fine hardcover copy in dust jacket now protected in removable cover. No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann OBrien was the first full-length biography of Flann OBrien. Rich in background, anecdote and social history, it is an extraordinary portrait of a writer and his times, perceptive, sympathetic and authoritative. Flann OBrien (aka Brian ONolan) was born in Tyrone in 1911 and worked as a civil servant for many years. He also developed an alter ego, Myles na Gopaleen, whose saitrical column in The Irish Times soon acquired legendary status. At Swim-Two-Birds, his first novel, appeared in 1939 and was praised by James Joyce, Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas and others. His second novel, The Third Policeman, failed to find a publisher at the time but has since been acknowledged as one of the most important novels to come out of Ireland in the twentieth century.Collector’s Item.

Edition: 1st Edition