Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: he Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

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An intimate study of three of Ireland`s greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices
`A father...is a necessary evil.` Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses
In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Tóibín takes three of Ireland`s greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce - and examines their earliest influences: their fathers. With his inimitable wit and sensitivity, Tóibín introduces us to Wilde Senior, the philandering doctor whose libel case prefigured that of his son; the

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