The Furys (Twentieth-Century Classics) [Mass Market Paperback]

James Hanley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1995 | Series: Twentieth-Century Classics

Depicts the life of the Fury family at a crucial moment - the return of the youngest son, coming home after being thrown out of his seminary in Ireland. His return, and the return of the other brother, crippled in an accident, bring to the surface the resentments and frustrations of the family.

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About the Author

Almost all biographies give James Hanley's dates as 1901 to 1985. The date of his death is not in doubt, but as his son, Liam Hanley, has recently established he was born in 1897, and in Liverpool not Dublin as previously thought. James Hanley was a novelist and playwright. His output was prodigious: in addition to the five novels in the Furys sequence being reissued by Faber Finds, he wrote about twenty-five novels, sixteen volumes of short stories, six plays and seven books of miscellaneous writings. His early life was adventurous. He joined the merchant navy when seventeen (his sea-faring days were formative), jumped ship in Canada, joined the Canadian Army, fought in the First World War, and was gassed before returning to Liverpool in 1918. His novel, Boy, achieved notoriety when it was suppressed for obscenity in the 1930s. The unexpurgated edition is now in print with Oneworld Classics. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Classics (January 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140185070
• ISBN-13: 978-0140185072
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,274,184 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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