Tarry Flynn

A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon.

He did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only story

A semi-autobiographical novel from the author of The Green Fool and The Great Hunger

A man''s mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon.

Patrick Kavanagh''s Tarry Flynn is an idyllic and beautifully evocative account of life as it was lived in Ireland in the 1930s.

• | Author: Patrick Kavanagh
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Sep 28, 2000
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780141183619
• | ISBN-10: 0141183616