Pete Mccarthy

McCarthy's Bar

A Journey of Discovery in Ireland

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Number One in Ireland!Number Two in Australia!Number Ten in Britain!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton / Sceptre
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 192mm x 127mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 260g
• ISBN-13: 9780340766057
• ISBN-10: 0340766050
• Artikelnr.: 09718594

Autorenporträt

Pete McCarthy wrote and performed many series for radio and television, including 'Desperately Seeking Something', 'Country Tracks' and 'Travelog', for which he has won the Travelex Award for Best TV Writer. MCCARTHY'S BAR sold nearly a million copies and won him the newcomer of the year prize at the British Book Awards in 2002. He passed away in 2002.

Rezensionen

'In its freewheeling, informal, jokey way, it is nothing less than an portrait of modern Ireland, in all its splendid contradictions. For a study on Ireland and Irishness, the book is exhilaratingly cosmopolitan in outlook ... Television's loss has been literature's gain.'
Telegraph