num_pages: 189
description: A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon.Like The Green Fool, his autobiography, Patrick Kavanagh's Tarry Flynn is an idyllic and beautifully evocative account of life as it was lived in Ireland earlier this century.
language: English
title: Tarry Flynn
titlecomplete: Tarry Flynn
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Ireland, Irish Literature, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Novels
ratings_count: 396
publisher: Penguin Books