A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl Edited by John Quinn. With a Foreword by Seamus Heaney (HQ121)

Published 1986: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original grey cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 144 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on the dust jacket. (HQ121)

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Edited interviews with Binchy, Boylan, Devlin, Johnston, Keane, Lavin, O'Brian etc, preface by Seamus Heaney.

John Quinn is a much-loved broadcaster and radio producer who was the recipient of numerous prestigious radio awards during his twenty-five years with RTÉ. He is also an accomplished author and writer of fiction and non-fiction, including 'Letters to Olive', an intimate and inspiring book, written as a tribute to his late wife. A skilful and engaging storyteller, his children’s novel, The Summer of Lily and Esme, was described as an instant classic and won the 1992 Bisto Children Book of the Year. John Quinn lives in Clarinbridge, Co. Galway.

Reviews:
This is a delightful collection of childhoods recounted by Ireland’s great female writers of the twentieth century. Adapted from a series of radio interviews, the text is relaxed but each woman’s character comes across strongly. The group provides a broad sample of Irish childhood experiences and delightful insight into the early influences which steered them towards books and writing.

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