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The Falling Angels (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Falling Angels (Paperback, New Ed)
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List price R367
Loot Price R272
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You Save R95 (26%)
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An exuberant Angela's Ashes meets When Did You Last See Your
Father?; an intoxicating memoir of Ireland and being Irish (and
Anglo-Irish as well) from one of literature's most flamboyant
characters. John Walsh is one of literature's party animals and
ever-present commentators, and he writes with terrific wit and
panache. The Falling Angels is a book about being Irish and about
the way the Irish see the English and vice versa; and how it feels
to fall in between. It opens with the death of Walsh's mother, 'the
Widow of Oranmore', as he learns the Irish Way of Death: 'the
rosaries and mass cards and lilies and amaryllises, the curious
mixture of innocence and guile with which distant in-laws from
Kerry and Dublin would coo and sigh and claim close friendship and
act at being saints, the increasingly direct conversations that the
neighbours (and I) had with Mother about death and what she could
expect in Heaven. Above all, there was my mother's own struggle
with her growing doubts about God and the afterlife - she who had
once been the Pope's representative in Battersea.' Every sentence
Walsh writes is witty, outrageous, illuminating and compelling; he
explores the Irish identity in a warm, personal and confessional
book that takes in issues of race, of place, of language, of song,
of love, of religion and, crucially, the changing nature of Ireland
as it wriggles out of the dwindling influence of the church towards
a new sense of itself; and in England, Irish culture has a
fashionable ascendency (Angela's Ashes, Father Ted) as indeed it
always has had. Stuffed like a barmbrack (fruitcake to you English)
with quotations from Heaney, MacNeice, the Pogues and Paul Muldoon,
it will be intensely personal, lively rather than gloomy, full of
literary and historical relish, and a completely glorious read.
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