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A Guest at the Feast: Essays

Maybe someday

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/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

17/100

Critics

81/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Colm Tóibín

Publisher:

Scribner

Date:

January 17, 2023

A collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature.

What The Reviewers Say

Robert Collins,
The Times (UK)
Sumptous.
Sarah Gilmartin,
Irish Times (IRE)
The breadth of the collection is impressive.
John Mullan,
The Guardian (UK)
These essays speak in the first person, but are not introspective. It is only in the opening piece, an account of his treatment for testicular cancer, that you get much self-revelation.
Tristen Brudy,
Readings (AU)
Personal, political, and poetic.