Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0030445914 . ; Half green cloth cover with yellow boards is rubbed at corners and bumped on upper corners but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and near pristine. Book has never been cracked open. Dust jacket has light wear and is soiled with a faint damp stain along top edge but in good+ condition. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ); 9.0 X 6.5 X 1.8 inches; 516 pages .

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Thomas Flanagan (1923–2002), the grandson of Irish immigrants, grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he ran the school newspaper with his friend Truman Capote. Flanagan attended Amherst College (with a two-year hiatus to serve in the Pacific Fleet) and earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he studied under Lionel Trilling while also writing stories for Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine . In 1959, he published an important scholarly work, The Irish Novelists, 1800 to 1850 , and the next year he moved to Berkeley, where he was to teach English and Irish literature at the University of California for many years. In 1978 he took up a post at the State University of New York at Stonybrook, from which he retired in 1996. Flanagan and his wife Jean made annual trips to Ireland, where he struck up friendships with many writers, including Benedict Kiely and Seamus Heaney, whom he in turn helped bring to the United States. His intimate knowledge of Ireland’s history and literature also helped to inspire his trilogy of historical novels, starting with The Year of the French (1979, winner of the National Critics’ Circle award for fiction) and continuing with The Tenants of Time (1988) and The End of the Hunt (1994). Flanagan was a frequent contributor to many publications, including The New York Review of Books , The New York Times , and The Kenyon Review . A collection of his essays, There You Are: Writing on Irish and American Literature and History , is also published by New York Review Books. Seamus Deane, formerly Professor of English and American Literature at University College, Dublin, is now Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Among his books are Selected Poems , Celtic Revivals, Strange Country: Ireland and Modernity , and the novel Reading in the Dark . He was General Editor of the three-volume Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing .

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Bookseller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10113
Title: THE YEAR OF THE FRENCH
Author: Flanagan, Thomas
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
ISBN 10: 0030445914
ISBN 13: 9780030445910
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1979
Keywords: 0030445914

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