# Tarry Flynn

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- Book: [Tarry Flynn](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-kavanagh/tarry-flynn) ([Tarry Flynn.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-kavanagh/tarry-flynn.md))
- Authors: [Patrick Kavanagh](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-kavanagh)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-361-9
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2000-09-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

He did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only story A semi-autobiographical novel from the author of The Green Fool and The Great Hunger A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon. Patrick Kavanagh's Tarry Flynn is an idyllic and beautifully evocative account of life as it was lived in Ireland in the 1930s.