The Year of the French : A Novel
by Flanagan, Thomas
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0030445914
- ISBN 13
- 9780030445910
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Thomas Flanagan (1923–2002), the grandson of Irish immigrants, grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he ran the school newspaper with his friend Truman Capote. Flanagan attended Amherst College (with a two-year hiatus to serve in the Pacific Fleet) and earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he studied under Lionel Trilling while also writing stories for Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine . In 1959, he published an important scholarly work, The Irish Novelists, 1800 to 1850 , and the next year he moved to Berkeley, where he was to teach English and Irish literature at the University of California for many years. In 1978 he took up a post at the State University of New York at Stonybrook, from which he retired in 1996. Flanagan and his wife Jean made annual trips to Ireland, where he struck up friendships with many writers, including Benedict Kiely and Seamus Heaney, whom he in turn helped bring to the United States. His intimate knowledge of Ireland’s history and literature also helped to inspire his trilogy of historical novels, starting with The Year of the French (1979, winner of the National Critics’ Circle award for fiction) and continuing with The Tenants of Time (1988) and The End of the Hunt (1994). Flanagan was a frequent contributor to many publications, including The New York Review of Books , The New York Times , and The Kenyon Review . A collection of his essays, There You Are: Writing on Irish and American Literature and History , is also published by New York Review Books. Seamus Deane, formerly Professor of English and American Literature at University College, Dublin, is now Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Among his books are Selected Poems , Celtic Revivals, Strange Country: Ireland and Modernity , and the novel Reading in the Dark . He was General Editor of the three-volume Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing .
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- Title
- The Year of the French : A Novel
- Author
- Flanagan, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0030445914
- ISBN 13
- 9780030445910
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart & Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Ficition
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