Saturday, November 29, 2008

A book to give your sister

Over the holiday, I picked up a copy of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds, one of the great Irish novels of the 20th century.
I can't stop laughing at the blurb on the front cover, from the poet Dylan Thomas:
"This is just the book to give your sister if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl."

2 comments:

Rosslyn Elliott said...

That's the best endorsement I've ever read! :-) I'm curious to hear what you think of the book.

Kathryn said...

I'm a loud, dirty, boozy girl (only) in spirit (sob!)--K