A guest at the feast : essays
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Published
New York : Scribner, [2023].
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 323 pages ; 22 cm.
Status
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction
824.914
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824.914
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LC Subjects
Authors, Irish -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Book reviews.
Cancer -- Patients -- England -- London -- Anecdotes.
Essays.
Essays.
Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Ireland -- Social life and customs.
LGBTQ+ people.
Popes -- Biography.
Religion in literature.
Travel writing.
Travel writing.
Tóibín, Colm, -- 1955- -- Anecdotes.
Venice (Italy)
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Book reviews.
Cancer -- Patients -- England -- London -- Anecdotes.
Essays.
Essays.
Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Ireland -- Social life and customs.
LGBTQ+ people.
Popes -- Biography.
Religion in literature.
Travel writing.
Travel writing.
Tóibín, Colm, -- 1955- -- Anecdotes.
Venice (Italy)
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Published
New York : Scribner, [2023].
Format
Book
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Notes
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"'It all started with my balls.' So begins Colm Tóibín’s fabulously compelling essay, laced with humor, about his diagnosis and treatment for cancer. Tóibín survives, but he has entered, as he says, 'the age of one ball.' The second essay in this seductive collection is a memoir about growing up in the 1950s and ’60s in the small town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford, the setting for many of Tóibín’s novels and stories, including Brooklyn, The Blackwater Lightship and Nora Webster. Tóibín describes his education by priests, several of whom were condemned years later for abuse. He writes about Irish history and literature, and about the long, tragic journey toward legal and social acceptance of homosexuality. In Part Two, Tóibín profiles three complex and vexing popes—John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis. And in Part Three, he writes about a trio of authors who reckon with religion in their fiction. The final essay, 'Alone in Venice,' is a gorgeous account of Toibin’s journey, at the height of the pandemic, to the beloved city where he has set some of his most dazzling scenes. The streets, canals, churches and museums were empty. He had them to himself, an experience both haunting and exhilarating." --publisher's website
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