Irish & Irish Americans - Biography, Regional Irish History, Irish Literary Biography
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Overview
"The Family Business is many things: journal of a frustrated young writer and lover; portrait of bohemian social life in 1970s Dublin; intimate history of the rising Catholic middle class and of a family in flux. Kenny writes autobiography with the eye and ear of a novelist, evoking a time, a place and a welter of emotions through vividly remembered scenes, snippets of dialogue, small epiphanies. Unlike most memoirs, which place so much weight on the act of remembering itself, and are thus more about the writer's present than his past, The Family Business has the immediacy of a diary, and an almost excruciating honesty. It is, above all, an extraordinarily accomplished piece of writing."--BOOK JACKET.Book Details
Published
October 18, 1999
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Pages
222
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781901866377