A tour de force of prose which captures all the poetry and drama of a child's experience of Dublin in the 30s and 40s. The author's crystal-clear recollections, recounted with sparkling humor and immediacy, and the vast array of colorful characters, combine to create an engaging and enthralling read.

Home Before Night

Leonard, Hugh

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Books, Ltd.

This is a companion volume to Hugh Leonard's "Home Before Night" containing anecdotes and stories of Leonard's childhood and growing up in Dublin. Leonard aims to reveal a picture of Irish habits - social, cultural and religious.

Out After Dark

Penguin??Books

Leonard writes about the comedies, tragedies and adventures of his many and varied feline friends.

Rover and Other Cats

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Penguin Putnam~trade

Da, a Life, Time Was

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

Irish Book Center

Deutsch

This is a companion volume to Hugh Leonard's "Home Before Night" containing anecdotes and stories of Leonard's childhood and growing up in Dublin. Leonard aims to reveal a picture of Irish habits - social, cultural and religious.

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

This rich, mature novel follows a few years in the life of T. J. Quill, a middle-aged Dubliner trapped in a passionless marriage, who is soon lured into an affair with the voluptuous Josie, a woman he only half-understands. Meanwhile, through a doomed friendship with a producer named "Thorn" Thornton, Quill becomes embrangled with a staging of a Plautus satire (retitled Lust). It's a memorable production which premieres outdoors, at night, during a hurricane. But just when Quill's career seems on the skids, it receives a much-needed boost when he is hired as the archivist to the late, great Western filmmaker, Sean O'Fearna, and finds himself matching wits with the director's flamboyant and feckless widow. This is a darkly comic tale of fluctuating friendships and rivalries on Dublin's creative fringes that makes subtle jabs at people's desire to reinvent themselves. Hugh Leonard has written an extraordinary first novel about marriage, adultery, friendship, and a lifelong love of film. A Wild People is a brilliant, modern novel of manners by one of Ireland's most prominent and popular playwrights.

A Wild People: A Novel

British & Irish

Thomas Dunne Books

Signed by the author on title page, slightly yellowed fore edge, else fine.

A Wild People

Contemporary

METHUEN

Hugh Leonard's second volume of autobiography is a rich portrait of adolescence in Dublin in the 40s and 50s: schooldays and altar-boyhood, early bliss in the seven pennies at the Astoria, problems with Gloria and Dolores. Leonard stirs in theater anecdotes, vignettes of Patrick Kavanagh and Brenda Behan, and divulges his own beginnings as a writer. The result is a witty and entertaining analysis of Dublin and Dubliners by one of Ireland's finest playwrights.

Out After Dark (Methuen Biography)

Community & Culture

Fillums

In 1942, with war raging in Europe, the playwright 'Perry' Perry and his wife Babs tire of Dublin literary life and move to the small, quiet coastal town of Drane. Drane, however, is more than it seems, and the astonished Perry is soon entangled in a web of hypocrisy and scandal, affairs and adultery, love, tragedy and death.

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Home Before Night

Out After Dark

Rover and Other Cats

Da, a Life, Time Was

Home Before Night

Out After Dark

A Wild People: A Novel

A Wild People

Out After Dark (Methuen Biography)

Fillums