- Published: 2 October 2006
- ISBN: 9780099428190
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $27.99
Booking Passage
We Irish & Americans
- Published: 2 October 2006
- ISBN: 9780099428190
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $27.99
A curious and engaging series of pieces which retain a personal and historical flavour...while he is excellent on Irish history and the immigrant experience
Stephanie Merritt, Observer
By turns diverting, evocative and provocative, Booking Passage gets to grips with all the muddle and multiplicity of its author's lifelong concerns. It does so, to our enjoyment, in a spirit of discernment and delight'
Patricia Craig, Independent
Heartfelt and artfully expressed
Scotland on Sunday
There are some beautiful observations about what it means to embrace a new culture, while holding on to, and romanticising, an old one...[with] lyrical and moving descriptions of Ireland, Irishness and the linguistic consequences of American cultural imperialism
Time Out
Profound, funny and immensely moving
Sunday Times
Beautifully written in a masterly style with the poet's touch on every page
Irish Independent
Diverting, evocative and provocative
Independent
His style has energy that takes my breath away it's so fresh and unexpected
Elmore Leonard
A lovely book
Washington Post