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Conor a biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien. Volume I, Narrative
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"Man of letters, diplomat, scholar " the only contemporary writer who can be compared to George Orwell and André Malraux" " that is how the Atlantic Monthly described Conor Cruise O'Brien on its Ja...
"Man of letters, diplomat, scholar " the only contemporary writer who can be compared to George Orwell and André Malraux" " that is how the Atlantic Monthly described Conor Cruise O'Brien on its January 1994 cover. If anything, that description underestimates the range of talents and activities of the person who has been widely referred to as "the greatest living Irishman.".
Details
- Creator
- Donald Harman Akenson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (616 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780773565104, 0773565108, 0773512551
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""PROLOGUE""; ""PART 1 BENDING LIFE'S BOW""; ""1 Nationalist Dublin: Not, Indeed, Joyceland""; ""2 The Cruise O'Briens before Conor""; ""3 His Father's Son: 1917�1936""; ""PART 2 A RISING PROFESSIONAL""; ""4 Living by His Wits: 1936�1941""; ""5 A Reasonably Civil Servant: 1942�1954""; ""6 To Paris, and New York, and Katanga, and Back: 1955�1961""; ""PART 3 SURVIVING THE SIXTIES""; ""7 Reflections on a Watershed""; ""8 African Academe: Ghana, 1962�1965""; ""9 In the Kingdom of the New York Intellectuals: 1965�1969""
- ""PART 4 AN IRISH PATRIOT""""10 ""Had Life Been Normal"": 1969�1972""; ""11 The Chains of Office: 1973�1977""; ""PART 5 PARTICIPANT OBSERVER""; ""12 Kildare Street to Fleet Street: 1977�1981""; ""13 An Enviable Freedom: 1982�1992""; ""EPILOGUE""; ""NOTES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""