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Born in Dublin in 1917 to politically active parents, Maeve Brennan's childhood in Ireland was moulded by the cultural ideologies of nationalism and lit by the creative energy of the Abbey and Gate theatres. She was seventeen when her father was appointed to the Irish Legation in Washington DC, where he was Irish Minister throughout World War II. Maeve worked writing fashion copy at Harper's Bazaar until 1949, when William Shawn invited her to join the New Yorker. Tiny, impeccably groomed, and devastatingly witty, in William Maxwell's words, 'to be around her was to see style being invented'. She wrote important fiction, criticism and Talk of the Town pieces for the New Yorker magazine throughout its most influential period in the 1950s and '60s, focusing on memory, migration and identity; her material, and women's lives. As this richly researched and wide-ranging book makes clear, Maeve Brennan's effect on the people who met her, her eye for human behaviour, clothing and domestic settings, her unsparing reading of literature, her memory of home and her courageous life as a woman alone in metropolitan America make her an icon of the twentieth century.
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'A biography to savour and treasure. Bourke's book has wit, sensitivity and insight, everything that Brennan would have approved of' -- Daily Mail, 28th May 2004
'A careful study' -- Sunday Telegraph, 30th May 2004
'An unusually fine biography... Bourke makes you want to read her [Brennan's] four books' -- The Sunday Times, 30th May 2004
'Petite, perfectly groomed and devastatingly witty... This, finally, is the biography she [Brennan] deserves' -- Mail on Sunday, 30th May 2004
'assiduously researched...a rich account of the struggle for Irish independence and the demands of literary life in New York' -- Guardian
'perceptive' -- Independent
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'A careful study' -- Sunday Telegraph, 30th May 2004
'An unusually fine biography... Bourke makes you want to read her [Brennan's] four books' -- The Sunday Times, 30th May 2004
'Petite, perfectly groomed and devastatingly witty... This, finally, is the biography she [Brennan] deserves' -- Mail on Sunday, 30th May 2004
'assiduously researched...a rich account of the struggle for Irish independence and the demands of literary life in New York' -- Guardian
'perceptive' -- Independent
The first book about Maeve Brennan, the recently rediscovered New Yorker writer from Ireland, who wrote like an angel, and looked like a fashion model, but became homeless in Manhattan in the 1970s and died forgotten in 1993.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0224062603
- ISBN 13 9780224062602
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First UK edition-first printing. Mint condition.Jonathan Cape,2004.First UK edition-first printing(2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1).Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(small nick and crease on the edge of the Dj cover),both in mint condition.Illustrated with b/w photos.339pp including Author's note,list of abbreviations,permissions,notes,index.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph From Publishers Weekly: Bourke (The Burning of Bridget Cleary) writes a sensitive biography of writer Brennan, who came to the U.S. from Ireland as a teenager (her father was the first Irish ambassador to the U.S.) and in 1949, in her early 30s, joined the New Yorker to write about women's fashion. Tiny, fiercely intelligent and impeccably groomed, Brennan was cherished by her colleagues. William Maxwell, a close friend, edited her stories--mainly fictionalized accounts of her Irish childhood, which he greatly admired--for the magazine. She also wrote a Talk of the Town column under the pseudonym The Long-Winded Lady. Yet behind the archly sophisticated persona, Bourke writes, was a fragile, alienated woman who, following a failed marriage to fellow writer St. Clair McKelway, drifted into an eccentric middle age and serious mental breakdown before leaving the New Yorker. She died in an obscure nursing home in 1993. Bourke, who teaches at University College, Dublin, draws a portrait rich in New Yorker history and modern Irish feminist history alike, one likely to do much to foster a new readership for Brennan's work. 8 pages of b&w photos. Seller Inventory # 1477
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