Description: Borstal Boy by Brendan BehanThe novel of an Irish terrorist, a teenage volunteer in the IRA. A fanatical believer, Behan was arrested with explosives at the age of 17 and spent three years locked in a British juvenile borstal. There he begins to wonder, who’s really the enemy?Borstal Boy is both a riveting self-portrait and a window into the problems, passions, and heartbreak of Ireland’s past. It is also a record of a change of heart. Inside the borstal (reform school), Behan meets British Protestants who are there for reasons of their own. He begins to see that class creates more common ground than he ever believed while religion and nationality are much more superficial divisions between people than he’d ever been taught. Released, Behan returned to Ireland changed and became one of that country’s most important dramatists with the plays The Quare Fellow, The Hostage, and Richard’s Cork Leg.Softcover / Nonpareil Books / 1982 / Very Good Condition
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Brand: Nonpareil Books
Color: Multicolor
ISBN: 0879234156
Book Title: Borstal Boy
Item Length: 8.2in
Item Height: 1.2in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: Brendan Behan
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Features: Reprint
Topic: Revolutionary, Literary, Europe / Ireland, Penology, Customs & Traditions, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publisher: Godine Publisher, David R.
Publication Year: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
