This new narrative by one of today’s classic storytellers will appear in a collection of stories and tales entitled THE HEAT OF THE SUN,being published this month by Atlantic - Little, Brown.
How to play an old Irish game, and how to discover “ the human thing to do” — these are among the talents explained in this new short story by one of Ireland’s finest living writers, who is also author of VIVE moi!, anenchanting autobiography recently published by Atlantic-Little, Brown.
An Irish writer, SEAN O’FAOLAIN, unlike his predecessors who trooped off to London, has defied censorship and done his work at home. He is the author of more than a score of books, and his versatility will be appreciated by those who turn to his novels, A NEST OF SIMPLE FOLK, COME BACK TO ERIN, AN AUTUMN IN ITALY, and his finest collection of short stories, I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. This is the second installment drawn from his reminiscences, VIVE MOI!, just published by Atlantic—Little, Brown.
A Dubliner who is generally regarded as one of the very best short-story writers of our time, SEAN O’FAOLAIN,in the following excerpt from his forthcoming autobiography. tells of his early years. His father was a policeman, and his mother look in lodgers from the Cork Opera House across the street. With his two brothers he lived in the garret, but the theater and the church and the rain god’s green beauty of the countryside were the brimmings which awakened the imagination of Ireland’s finest writer.
An Irish writer of great distinction who, unlike his predecessors George Bernard Shaw and James Joyce, has never broken his home lies with Dublin, SEAN O’FAOLAIN has made many visits to the United States and occasionally has added his luster to the English Department at Princeton University.
SEAN O’FAOLAIN, unlike many of the leading Irish writers of this century (including George Bernard Shaw and James Joyce), has elected to remain in Ireland. He is a Dubliner who is generally regarded as one of the very best short-story writers of our time and is a sympathetic yet realistic interpreter of contemporary Irish life.
SEAN O’FAOLAIN,unlike many of the leading Irish writers of this century (including George Bernard Shaw and James Joyce), has elected to remain in Ireland. He is a Dubliner who is generally regarded as one of the very best short-story writers of our time and is a sympathetic yet realistic interpreter of contemporary Irish life. This is one of the thirty stories which Mr. O’Faolain has selected as his best and which will be published in book form next spring by Atlantic—Little, Brown. The mood and experience which contributed to the writing of these stories, Mr. O’Faolain describes elsewhere in this issue.
A Dubliner who is generally regarded as one of the best short-story writers of our time, SEAN O’FAOLAIN is a sympathetic yet realistic interpreter of contemporary Irish life. He has made a selection of his thirty best stories, which are to be published in book form next spring, and in looking back over them Mr. O’Faolain has this to say about the development of a creative writer.
Novelist, editor, and biographer, SEAN O’FAOLAIN is the leading literary light in Dublin. A member of the Irish Republican Army for six years — he volunteered when he was sixteen — he returned to his studies at the Trouble’s end. In 1926 he came to Harvard as a Commonwealth Fellow, and after a period of teaching here and in England he went bach to Ireland to write. Today, still under fifty, he has in print three novels, three biographies, a piny, a travel booh, and the best short history of Ireland, The Irish.
Novelist, editor, and biographer, SEAN O’FAOLAIN is today the leading literary light in Dublin. A member of the Irish Republican Army for six years - he volunteered when he was sixteen — he returned to his books at the Trouble’s end. first to teach and then to write. Today still under fifty he has in print three volumes of short stories, three novels, three biographies, a play, a travel book, and the best short history of Ireland, The Irish.