The Pope of Camden Town
By: Peter R. Brumlik
Publisher: Inkwater Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Portland, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781592994700
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: "...studies the life of Brendan Ronin, a bigoted Irish alcoholic, living in a ghetto of London, circa 1910. Forty short years after the famine, we see the beginnings of the Irish stereotype--on the dole, darkly defiant and often drunk, Ronin provides the views of both poet and pugilist. He struggles with poverty and the "burden" of his wife and two young daughters, and dreams of returning to Ireland. This historical satire and irony is designed to produce laughter"--Book jacket.