Horseman, Pass By!

Michel Déon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2017
The Lilliput Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84351-708-5 (ISBN)

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These reflective essays about Déon’s life and experiences in the west of Ireland describe the colourful and varied personalities that the French novelist has come across since he and his family moved there in the mid 1970s. From his friendship with John McGahern and Ulick O’Connor to Tim, the sturdy old postman who prefers his wind-blown country round to retirement in sunny California, Horseman, Pass By! is peopled with fascinating characters and encounters. Taking its title from Yeats, this work is an affectionate portrait of the Irish and a lament for a fading country that has been changed by new wealth and altered values. Déon’s Horseman, Pass By! is an elegant memoir about a beautiful landscape and its inhabitants and forms a touching and amusing tribute to his adopted country.

Michel Déon was a novelist and distinguished member of Academie Francaise who lived in Galway from 1976. He is best known as author of The Purple Taxi, which became a film in 1977 starring Fred Astaire, Charlotte Rampling and Peter Ustinov, introducing the French public to the glories of Connemara. Horseman Pass By! was originally published by Gallimard in 2005 and is now available for the first time in English.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2018
Übersetzer	Clíona ní Riordáin
Verlagsort	Dublin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 208 mm
Gewicht	250 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-84351-708-6 / 1843517086
ISBN-13	978-1-84351-708-5 / 9781843517085
Zustand	Neuware