MAD, BAD, DANGEROUS TO KNOW

In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Tóibín turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats a nd James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers. From Wilde's doctor father, a brilliant statistician and amateur archa eologist, who was taken to court by an obsessed lover in a strange premonition of what would happen to his son/ to Yeats' father, an impoverished artist and brilliant letter-writer who could never finish apainting/ to John Stanislus Joyce, a singer, drinker and st ory-tell...[Leer más]