About this title: 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. Like "The Green Fool", his autobiography, Patrick Kavanagh's "Tarry Flynn" is an idyllic and beautifully evocative account of life as it was lived in Ireland earlier this century.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, Middlesex, England
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140045536ISBN:0140045538
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Good copy with some general wear. some light edge rubbing. some small creases on covers. pages clean and unmarked. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 2000-09-28
ISBN-13:9780141183619ISBN:0141183616
Description: Good. Save some $$$. Perfectly Good Reading Copy. Light notes. Owner's name inscribed inside book. Collectible 1978 printing. Great Copy. Ships Lightning Fast. read more
Description: 189pp. paperback: Good+ or better [a nice clean, complete & tight copy] Originally published in 1948, this postwar novel by the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) is "an idyllic and beautifully evocative acount of life as it was lived in Ireland" during the early 20th century. Kavanagh is noted for his classic autobiography of rural Ireland, "The Green Fool" (1938), and among his poems was "Raglan Road, " sung by many a folk troubador down the years. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: ] The Pilot Press Ltd, [London
Date Published: 1948
Description: Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black, dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket torn at the top of the spine panel and with tape residue from an old repair. First edition, first impression of the autobiographical novel about the life of an Irish farmer and poet. One of Kavanagh's scarcest books in dust jacket. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 30/08/1990
ISBN-13:9780140181166ISBN:0140181164
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Description: Good. Minimal damage to cover and binding. Pages show light use. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Description: Good. Light shelving wear with minimal damage to cover and bindings. Pages show minor use. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Devin-Adair Company, New York
Date Published: 1949
Description: G/NONE. Spine and boards slightly soiled and edgeworn, slight odor. Owner name on front free endpaper. Slight toning in endpapers, bump along rear gutter. Interior clean, binding tight.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 256 pages; Studio (bagged) kvk yellow/brown fictcat. read more
Edition: Penguin First Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, UK
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780141183619ISBN:0141183616
Description: Fine. Penguin Autobiography Trade Paperback Book No 118361. This Book Is In Fine Condition. Alough I Have Discribed This Book As A First Edition It Was First Done In 1978 By Penguin Books But This Is The First In Penguin Classics. Patrick Kavanagh's Tarry Flynn Is An Idyllic & Beautifully Evocative Account Of Life As It Was Lived In Irland In The 1930s. read more
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Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, UK
ISBN-13:9780141183619ISBN:0141183616
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. For Tarry Flynn, young farmer, poet, son and lover, the responsibility of family, farm and poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one and he realizes he must rise above it all or make his escape. ISBN10: 0141183616. read more
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"When you see that Patrick Kavanagh wrote it you think that the whole book is going to be spent extolling the beauty of fields, bogs potatoes etc..
Which is exactly what it does! But it shows the kind of mindset in rural Ireland in those days, and Tarry's personality is kind of how I imagine Patrick Kavanagh might have been."
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