The Tailor And Ansty
Published on 1. January 1986
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-85342-050-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Tailor and Ansty was banned soon after its first publication in 1942 and became the subject of much bitter controversy. It has become a modern Irish classic, promising to make immortal the Tailor and his irrepressible wife, Ansty. The Tailor never travelled further than Scotland, yet the breadth of the world could not contain the wealth of his humour and fantasy. All human life is here - marriages, inquests, matchmaking, wakes - and always the Tailor, his wife and their black cow.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cork
Ireland
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
246 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85342-050-7 (9780853420507)
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Person
Eric Cross was born in Newry, County Down, in 1905 and was educated as a chemical engineer. He is best known as the recorder of the life of the Tailor and his wife Ansty, who first made their appearance in print in The Bell in February 1941. Silence is Golden, a selection of stories and essays by Eric Cross, appeared in 1978. He died in 1980.