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John B. Keane was born in Ireland on July 21, 1928. He attended St. Michael's College, Listowel. By 1945, he was apprenticed to a chemist in Listowel. He eventually took over a small public house and began to write. During his lifetime, he published 46 works including Sive, The Field, Big Maggie, The Streets and Other Poems, Sharon's Grave, Letters of a Matchmaker, Hut 42, Moll, and Durango. In 1999 he won the first Irish PEN Award for Literature. Keane died on May 30, 2002.
This is a reprint, Mercier paperback, 1980 (first published 1972). The correspondence between a country parish priest and his nephew who is studying to be a priest.
Cover art by John Skelton.
