An edition of Borstal Boy (Nonpareil Book) (1958)

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An edition of Borstal Boy (Nonpareil Book) (1958)

Borstal boy

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This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed my suitcase, containing Pot. Chlor., Sulph Ac, gelignite, detonators, electrical and ignition, and the rest of my Sinn Fein conjurer's outfit, and carried it to the window..." The men were, of course, the police, who knew seventeen-year-old Behan for the anti-imperialist terrorist he was and arrested him. He spent three years as a prisoner in England, primarily in Borstal (reform school), and was then expelled to his homeland, a changed but hardly defeated rebel. Once banned in the Irish Republic, Borstal Boy is both a riveting self-portrait and a clear look into the problems, passions, and heartbreak of Ireland.

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Publisher
D.R. Godine
Language
English
Pages
386

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Borstal Boy
January 2000, David R. Godine Publisher
Paperback in English
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Borstal Boy
April 5, 1990, ARROW (RAND)
Paperback in English
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Borstal-Boy: Roman
1989, Kiepenheuer
in German - 1. Aufl., [1. - 12. Tsd.]
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Borstal boy
1983, Black Swan
in English
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Borstal boy
1982, D.R. Godine
in English
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Borstal boy
1964, Hutchinson
in English

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Edition Notes

, Reprint. Originally published, New York , Knopf, 1959.

Published in
Boston
Series
A Nonpareil book -- no. 26

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
365/.94264
Library of Congress
PR6003.E417, PR6003.E417 Z463 1982

The Physical Object

Pagination
386 p. ;
Number of pages
386

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22359591M
Internet Archive
borstalboy00beha
ISBN 10
0879234156
LCCN
81020115
OCLC/WorldCat
8032924
Library Thing
19329
Goodreads
3759105

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