Product Description
Although best known to current audiences as a hugfely succesful novelist, Colm Toibín worked as a journalist for much of the late 1970;s and the 1980's , and this collection includes the best of his writings about Africa, South America , Ireland and Europe.
Includes perceptive essays on 1980's Ireland, on writers such as John McGahern, on SPUC, and a masterful essay on a long train journey acroos eastern Europe after the wall fell.