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About Twenty Years A-Growing
Product Description O'Sullivan's memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. “The only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation.”―Sean O'Fáoláin, The Listener. Introductory Note by E. M. Forster. From Library Journal O'Sullivan here tells the story of his growing up in Great Blasket, a sparse island off Ireland's Atlantic coast with a Gaelic-speaking population. Along with an introduction by E.M. Forster from the original 1933 printing, this edition contains new photos and illustrations by the author. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review O'Sullivan here tells the story of his growing up in Great Blasket, a sparse island off Ireland's Atlantic coast with a Gaelic-speaking population. Along with an introduction by E.M. Forster from the original 1933 printing, this edition contains new photos and illustrations by the author., Library Journal It is a summer island of romantic beauty that he shows us, dwelling always on the colour of the scenery and the bright, wild life..., Times Literary Supplement This natural and beautiful book brings a breath of sea air and a strange music....It is as alive and sparkling as the sea on a summer morning., The Observer A book to buy, to beg, or to borrow. To miss it is to miss something which will leave your adventuring among books incomplete., Irish Independent You cannot possibly fail to enjoy this book, the only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation..., The Listener About the Author Maurice O'Sullivan was born in 1904 and joined the Civic Guard of the nascent Irish Republic as a young man, but found that law enforcement was not to his liking. While posted in Connemara he wrote a novel, Twenty Years A-Growing, for the entertainment was friends. He drowned tragically in 1950, leaving behind a widow and two children.
