February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
M0RE BREAD OR I’LL APPEAR
Emer Martin
Lord knows how they dream up book titles these days, but with Emer Martin a tale well told seems assured. This is Martin’s second novel, a follow-up to her critically acclaimed "Breakfast in Babylon." It tells the story of a family, a rather strange family, a lost family member and a globe-trotting search for her. The sleeve notes state that the book casts a unique eye on "the tyranny of genetic and emotional bonds, the difficulty of love." Houghton Mifflin Company. 271 pp., $23.
SACRED MOMENTS: A
Photographic Journey
Valerie O’Sullivan
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There might be more computer programers than saints and scholars on the island of Ireland these days, but there’s no doubting that religion still plays an strongly influential role in Irish life. This photographic book, with a foreword by Alice Taylor, shows that despite "the fragile existence of religion in Ireland today," a traditional, spiritual Ireland continues to exist alongside the burgeoning material one. Published in Ireland by Veritas, £14.99.
W.B. YEATS: A LIFE
The Apprentice Mage
R.F. Foster
This is the paperback edition of Waterford-born R.F. Foster’s authorized biography which won the 1997 James Tait Black Prize. It sheds new light on Yeats’S bohemian early life, his affairs, experiments with drugs and occultism. Oxford University Press. 640 pp., $19.95. Details, (212) 726-6447.
BIG TOWN BIG TIME
This celebration of 100 years of New York is published by the city’s "hometown paper," the Daily News. It is a collection of special stories in the paper which recently ran under the same "Big Town Big Time" banner. Not surprisingly, Irish characters with names such as Brady, Breslin and O’Dwyer abound. A feast for the Big Apple lore and newspaper archives fan. Published by Sports Publishing Inc. and the Daily News. 224 pp. $39.95, but $29.95 if purchased directly from the News. For details, call Bret Kroencke at 1 (800) 327-5557.