# A Guest at the Feast

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- Book: [A Guest at the Feast](https://www.bookquiver.com/colm-toibin/a-guest-at-the-feast) ([A Guest at the Feast.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/colm-toibin/a-guest-at-the-feast.md))
- Authors: [Colm Tóibín](https://www.bookquiver.com/colm-toibin)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-229-9
- Published: 2011-12-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is Colm Tóibín's touching memoir. A Guest at the Feast moves from the small town of Enniscorthy to Dublin, from memories of a mother who always had a book on the go to the author's early adulthood, from a love of literature to the influences of place and family. Tóibín's captivating memoir is the story of a writer coming of age and his connections between home, work and love. It is a perfect gem of a book.