A Guest at the Feast: Essays Toibin Colm
From one of the greatest writers of our time--a collection of brilliant essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, and homosexuality--A Guest at the Feast…
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From one of the greatest writers of our time--a collection of brilliant essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, and homosexuality--A Guest at the Feast is a glorious tribute to the art of writing.Colm Tibn opens this stunning collection with a supremely compelling essay, laced with humor about his (successful) treatment for cancer, which begins: "It all started with my balls." Part two is an autobiographical essay about growing up in the small town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford, the setting for many of his novels and stories, including Brooklyn, The Blackwater Lightship, and Nora Webster. Tibn writes about the priests who educated him, several of whom were condemned years later for abuse in the greatest scandal ever to befall the Catholic Church in Ireland. He writes about Irish history and