The Mangan inheritance
By: by Brian Moore ; introduction by Christopher Ricks
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781590174487
Subjects: Poets; Family; Inheritance and succession; Fiction
Description: "Not so long ago James Mangan was a brilliant young poet. These days, however, he toils as a journalist and shivers in the shadow of his glamorous movie-star wife. And now she has left him for her lover. Adrift and depressed, Jamie takes refuge with his father, in whose house he turns up a 19th-century daguerreotype bearing the initials 'J.M.' and depicting a man who, as it happens, is Jamie's splitting image. Could this be the only existing photograph of his purported ancestor, the legendarily dissolute Irish poet James Clarence Mangan?"--P. [4] of cover.