{"product_id":"mad-bad-dangerous-to-know-the-fathers-of-wilde-yeats-and-joyce","title":"Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eTóibín\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e __________________\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eMad, Bad, Dangerous to Know\u003c\/i\u003e Colm Tóibín takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce - and examines their earliest influences: their fathers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With his inimitable wit and sensitivity, Tóibín 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\u003e \u003cb\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e__________________\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Astonishing to read. Tóibín has a hawk-like eye for literary subtleties, and a generosity towards his subjects that is warm'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Funny, exciting, illuminating, wonderful, so engaging. Tells us more than a little about our own selves along the way'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'There is something interesting and insightful on almost every page'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Sparkling, subtle, witty and often deeply moving . . . A classic'\u003c\/b\u003e Fintan O'Toole, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Scintillating, imaginative, enlightening and powerfully moving throughout'\u003c\/b\u003e Roy Foster, \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know : The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce","offer_id":46307094855877,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-241-35442-1.jpg?v=1780532256","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/mad-bad-dangerous-to-know-the-fathers-of-wilde-yeats-and-joyce","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}