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  The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life (Irish Literature) (Paperback) By (author) Flann O'Brien, Illustrated by Ralph Steadman, Translated by Patrick Power

  

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  Short Description for The Poor Mouth"O'Brien was one of the comic geniuses of the 20th century . . . The Poor Mouth is wildly funny and Steadman's drawings catch the spirit." Boston Globe
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  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
  • Published: 03 February 2007
  • Format: Paperback 128 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781564780911 ISBN 10: 1564780910
  • Sales rank: 83,492

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Full description for The Poor Mouth

• The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its residents. Potatoes constitute the basis of his family's daily fare, and they share both bed and board with the sheep and pigs. A scathing satire on the Irish, this work brought down on the author's head the full wrath of those who saw themselves as the custodians of Irish language and tradition when it was first published in Gaelic in 1941.