A Guest at the Feast: Colm Toibin By Colm Tóibín From the winner of the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award

A Guest at the Feast: Colm Toibin By Colm Tóibín From the winner of the Costa Novel Award and the Impac AwardA Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tibn delineates the bleakness and strangeness of life and also its richness and its complexity. As he reveals the shades of light and dark in a Venice without

How can I learn how to think statistically

the narrator finds herself haunted by the story of her older sister

travel writing

and unassailable strength through understanding the physics

Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes' apprentices

and leaders in government and business

'Snow White' and 'Cinderella' to the danger and wit of such lesser-known tales as 'The Three Snake Leaves'

all bets are off

a true classic

no hugging is one of their household rules

· Dolly Parton sang Happy Birthday to him over the phone

involving the absence of space itself and