{"product_id":"9780241354421","title":"Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know : The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Toibin, Colm, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 25\/07\/2019,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 192 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Ireland, Biography: literary, Literary essays, Literary studies: general\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780241354421\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eAn intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce - and examines their earliest influences: their fathers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith his inimitable wit and sensitivity, Toibin introduces us to Wilde Senior, the philandering doctor whose libel case prefigured that of his son; the elder Yeats, an impoverished artist who never finished a painting; and to John Stanislaus Joyce, the hard-drinking, storytelling father of James, who couldn't feed his own family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an illuminating study of how each of these men cast a long shadow not only over the lives of their famous sons, but over the works for which they are celebrated and cherished.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstone's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44168760951021,"sku":"9780241354421","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780241354421.jpg?v=1689678285","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780241354421","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}