Beschrijving
The Storyman
Bryan MacMahon
The Master was Bryan MacMahon’s description of his life as a schoolteacher. The Storyman is different. In it he explores the experiences and personalities which provided the sources for his writing life.
With a delightful mixture of colloquial and the classical, he reveals the unique vision of a life spent among his own people in Listowel, Co Kerry.
Bryan MacMahon has lived a life on many levels and yet is moved by “the minor epiphanies of the passing day”. The Storyman presents his forthright views with colour, sensitivity and coherency.
Above all this book entertains. It is true to a phrase often on his lips, “Everything is a sotry and a story is everything”.
Time magazine has described Bryan MacMahon’s writing as “a shout in the blood”.
A joy of living runs through these pages.
“You have done something that very few other writers of fiction have done – AE Coppard? Occasionally VS Prichett? Alain-Fournier? – You have written short stories based on common life in the mood of a prose poet… the wonder of it to pedestrian pose-writers like me… is that you have created as a result, an extra art dimension.”