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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know audiobook
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrator: Colm Toibin
- Category: Essays, Literary Collections
- Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Audiobook Summary
From the multiple award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating look at Irish culture, history, and literature through the lives of the fathers of three of Ireland’s greatest writers–Oscar Wilde’s father, William Butler Yeats’s father, and James Joyce’s father–“Thrilling, wise, and resonant, this book aptly unites Toibin’s novelistic gifts for psychology and emotional nuance with his talents as a reader and critic, in incomparably elegant prose” (The New York Times Book Review).
Colm Toibin begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university and where three Irish literary giants came of age. Oscar Wilde, writing about his relationship with his father stated: “Whenever there is hatred between two people there is bond or brotherhood of some kind…you loathed each other not because you were so different but because you were so alike.” W.B. Yeats wrote of his father, a painter: “It is this infirmity of will which has prevented him from finishing his pictures. The qualities I think necessary to success in art or life seemed to him egotism.” James’s father was perhaps the most quintessentially Irish, widely loved, garrulous, a singer, and drinker with a volatile temper, who drove his son from Ireland.
“An entertaining and revelatory book about the vexed relationships between these three pairs of difficult fathers and their difficult sons” (The Wall Street Journal), Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know illustrates the surprising ways these fathers surface in the work of their sons. “As charming as [they are] illuminating, these stories of fathers and sons provide a singular look at an extraordinary confluence of genius” (Bookpage). Toibin recounts the resistance to English cultural domination, the birth of modern Irish cultural identity, and the extraordinary contributions of these complex and masterful authors. “This immersive book holds literary scholarship to be a heartfelt, heavenly pursuit” (The Washington Post).
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Audiobook Narrator
Colm Toibin is the narrator of Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know audiobook that was written by Colm Toibin
Colm Tóibín is the author of ten novels, including The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster, as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022–2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.
About the Author(s) of Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
Colm Toibin is the author of Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Full Details
| Narrator | Colm Toibin |
| Length | 6 hours 7 minutes |
| Author | Colm Toibin |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Release date | April 19, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781508267553 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Essays, Literary Collections
Additional info
The publisher of the Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781508267553.
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