The Poor Mouth

The classic satire from the renowned comic and acclaimed author of -At Swim-Two-Birds- - Flann O-Brien.Flann O-Brien-s gloriously wicked satire of the traditional Irish peasant novel, The Poor Mouth tells the shamelessly ironic story of Bonaparte O-Coonassa, born in the West of Ireland -on a terrible winter-s night-.A hymn to the world of potatoes, rain and -excellent poverty-, this cruelly funny assault on the fashionable Gaelic Revival of the day brought the wrath of the custodians of national sentiment upon O-Brien-s head for many years thereafter.