Title: Mangan Inheritance
First published: March 21, 1987
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Poets, Family, Inheritance and succession, Irish fiction, Families, Fiction, general, Fiction, family life, general, Ireland, fiction
Places: Ireland
People: James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849)