| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9781568331874 | | Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, Inc. | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30738853 | | Item#: RYDPKH | | Dimensions (in Inches) 6.5H x 9.75L x 1.5T |
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| | | Brendan Behan was already a legend of the literary world when he died in 1964 at the age of 41. Today his stature as a celebrated writer and wit, rebel and rake is firmly established, yet posterity tends to focus on the hackneyed image of the archetypal Irishman and spectacular drunk.
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A full-dress recounting of the short, unhappy life of the great Irish playwright and political radical, this biography includes material drawn from previously unknown letters Behan wrote while he was in prison. The book also focuses on Behan's artistic friendships with Patrick Kavanagh, J.P. Donleavy, and others, and it takes a hard look at the misery of Behan's last years, when he was diabetic, alcoholic, often comatose, and frequently unbearable.
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