Booking Passage: We Irish & Americans

Author: Thomas Lynch
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Biography: Literary, Memoirs, Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets, Family & Relationships, Guidebooks, Travel Writing
Book Format: Paperback

In February of 1970, Thomas Lynch, aged twenty-one, bought a one-way ticket to Ireland. He landed in the townland of Moveen, at the edge of the ocean in West Clare, outside the thatched cottage that his great-grandfather had left late in the nineteenth century with a one-way ticket to America. Tommy and Nora Lynch, Thomas Lynch's elderly, unmarried, distant cousins welcomed the young American 'home'. In the words of the author, 'it changed my life'.Booking Passage is part travelogue, part cultural study, part memoir and elegy, part guidebook for what Lynch calls 'fellow pilgrims' working their way through their own and the larger histories. It is a magnificent hymn of praise to Ireland.

About Thomas Lynch
Thomas Lynch's poems, essays and stories have appeared in The Atlantic and Granta, Harper's and the Times (of London, New York, Ireland and L.A.) and elsewhere. He has published four poetry collections and a collection of stories, Apparition & Other Late Fictions (published by Jonathan Cape), as well as works of non-fiction, including The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade. He lives in Milford, Michigan and in Moveen, West Clare.

(BK-9780099428190)

SKU BK-9780099428190
Barcode # 9780099428190
Brand Vintage
Artist / Author Thomas Lynch
Shipping Weight 0.2600kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 19.800m
Assembled Height 2.000m
Assembled Width 12.900m
Type Paperback

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