Tóibín’s fascinating study writes literary fathers into their sons’ stories
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know is based on a series of lectures that Tóibín delivered in honour of the late biographer Richard Ellmann at Emory University in Georgia last year
Biography: Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce, By Colm Tóibín, Viking, €17.95
On the surface, William Wilde, John Butler Yeats and John Stanislaus Joyce ...
