The Maura Laverty story : from Rathangan to Tolka Row
2017, First Edition. Published by the author; printed in Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Fine paperback copy; very slightly dust-dulled. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #463118
ISBN: 9781527214910
Physical Description; 333 pages : illustations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Maura Laverty was an Irish novelist, storyteller, poet, journalist, scriptwriter, playwright and broadcaster, advice columnist and, last but not least, a cookery book writer. Maura was the most versatile female writer in Ireland between 1940 and 1960.Though she did not publish a memoir, her four novels are deeply autobiographical. Maura was the subject of an excellent RTÉ Radio documentary by Sarah Binchy (2011). Admirers of her work included Brendan Behan, who wrote to her from his prison cell, and the late Maeve Binchy, who wrote the foreword to two of her novels that were re-published as part of the Virago Modern classics series in the 1980s. Subjects; Biography. Laverty, Maura.
Price: €85.00