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Yeats is Dead begins with Roddy Doyle and ends with Frank McCourt. In between, thirteen other Irish writers spin an increasingly elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and literary shenanigans in present-day Dublin.
After the movie "Scotland, PA" I think this book has one of the best deaths of any story I've enjoyed (Boethius ranks up there, too, but not as funny): death by trapped fart. ( )
After the movie "Scotland, PA" I think this book has one of the best deaths of any story I've enjoyed (Boethius ranks up there, too, but not as funny): death by trapped fart. ( )
Yeats Is Dead! must be one of the strangest mysteries. Wherever outcomes would seem predictable, the next writer reverses the tide of the story. Chapter 2 mentions none of the characters that Chapter 1 does and whenever a character is being built up they are killed off by the next writer. ( )
Yeats is Dead begins with Roddy Doyle and ends with Frank McCourt. In between, thirteen other Irish writers spin an increasingly elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and literary shenanigans in present-day Dublin.
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