{"product_id":"dead-as-doornails-9781843519737","title":"Dead as Doornails","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anthony Cronin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lilliput Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lilliput Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDead as Doornails\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1976, returns to print as a true classic of Irish memoir. In this vivid account of post-war literary Dublin, Anthony Cronin captures a world as colorful and unruly as one would expect from an intimate of Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh, and Myles na Gopaleen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet this memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes. It offers a sharp, clear-eyed antidote to the sentimental myths that often shape Dublin's literary history. Cronin writes with remarkable subtlety about the frustrations and contradictions of his generation: heavy drinking, sexual repression, insecurity and begrudgery, the narrowness of cultural life, and the bittersweet lure of exile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders encounter a comic sojourn in France with Behan and follow Cronin to London, where he worked as a literary editor and befriended the writer Julian Maclaren-Ross and the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe generation Cronin chronicles was, in many ways, marked by wasted promise. Through the luminous prose of \u003ci\u003eDead as Doornails\u003c\/i\u003e, that lost potential is reclaimed, securing the book's place in Irish literary history alongside the finest works of Behan, Kavanagh, and Myles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lilliput Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47772862513303,"sku":"9781843519737","price":1371.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781843519737.webp?v=1777976336","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dead-as-doornails-9781843519737","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}