Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions! From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a "not to be missed" (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature. "IT ALL STARTED WITH MY BALLS." So begins Colm Tibn's fabulously compelling essay, laced with humor, about his diagnosis and treatment for cancer. Tibn survives, but he has entered, as he says,... Celý popis
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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions!
From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a "not to be missed" (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature.
"IT ALL STARTED WITH MY BALLS." So begins Colm Tibn's fabulously compelling essay, laced with humor, about his diagnosis and treatment for cancer. Tibn survives, but he has entered, as he says, "the age of one ball." The second essay in this seductive collection is a memoir about growing up in the 1950s and '60s in the small town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford, the setting for many of Tibn's novels and stories, including Brooklyn, The Blackwater Lightship, and Nora Webster. Tibn describes his education by priests, several
From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a "not to be missed" (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature.
"IT ALL STARTED WITH MY BALLS." So begins Colm Tibn's fabulously compelling essay, laced with humor, about his diagnosis and treatment for cancer. Tibn survives, but he has entered, as he says, "the age of one ball." The second essay in this seductive collection is a memoir about growing up in the 1950s and '60s in the small town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford, the setting for many of Tibn's novels and stories, including Brooklyn, The Blackwater Lightship, and Nora Webster. Tibn describes his education by priests, several
