'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 Ireland's west coast over a period of four 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 Synge's own and the result, as Colm Toibin has remarked, is that 'unlike most travel books of 100 years ago, it has not dated at all'.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Serif
ISBN-13
9781897959565
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92064883
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Aran Islands
Illustrator
Jack B. Yeats
Author
J.M. Synge
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Travel Writing
Publication Year
2008
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
128mm
Item Weight
270g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
J.M. Synge
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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