false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170533320m/59641.jpg 59641 9 The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its residents. Potatoes constitute the basis of his family's daily fare, and they share both bed and board with the sheep and pigs. A scathing satire on the Irish, this work brought down on the author's head the full wrath of those who saw themselves as the custodians of Irish language and tradition when it was first published in Gaelic in 1941. 969563 1941 The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About the Hard Life total:224|5:73|4:96|3:49|2:6|1:0| 224 908 364 22 5 5 true false Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Aug 20 19:09:24 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 26 18:37:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 01:25:03 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 01:04:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 08:17:42 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 09:55:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 08:13:45 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 27 07:35:39 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Thu Sep 17 18:37:33 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 19:46:35 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 15:43:55 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 15:55:01 -0700 2008
This one's much more straightforward than _At Swim-two-birds_, and I don't love it quite as much, but all you need to know is that he was sick of the fetishization of poverty-stricken "authentic" Gaelic life and culture, so he wrote this...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 08:29:31 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 08:29:56 -0800 2009 Again from the Complete Novels. My Flann O'Brien Fiesta continues.]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 09 06:45:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 06:45:26 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Sun Dec 14 12:17:55 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 12:18:17 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 10:22:48 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 10:23:30 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Oct 29 08:41:03 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 08:41:17 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 19:48:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 25 18:35:31 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 08:52:59 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 10:57:10 -0700 2008
I would surely recommend this to anybody and will try and read more from Flann O'Brien (or Brian O'Nolan, or ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sat Aug 18 03:05:56 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 03:18:20 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 21 10:10:22 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 10:57:41 -0700 2008 Buy the Everyman's Edition. It contains his other classics as well. ]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Wed Aug 20 19:38:27 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 19:39:52 -0700 2008 Angela's Ashes should have never seen a NYT list, but not enough people already knew that O'Brien blew the lid off of every Irish reminisence of poverty before and after him.]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 25 06:38:57 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 07:16:44 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Fri Jul 11 18:34:16 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 18:37:08 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Dec 30 07:30:04 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 03 09:40:03 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Apr 26 09:31:15 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 26 09:32:46 -0700 2007 This is the most accurate book about the Irish I have ever read.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=59641