Book description
Two young orphans, Finbarr and Manus, are taken into the household
of the eccentric Mr Collopy where they grew up surrounded by the
smells of good whiskey and bad cooking. Manus proves to be a business
genius, and this talent takes him from teaching people to walk the
tightrope by correspondence course to the Vatican.
The greatest
satirical Irish writer of the twentieth-century turns his attention to
the garrulous Irish and vividly captures the wit, extravagance and
glory of their talk.
Flann O'Brien was a pseudonym of Brian O'Nolan, one of Ireland's
greatest newspaper columnists and novelists.
