Sweeney Astray

Sweeney Astray

Paperback (01 Apr 1985)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. Heaney's translation not only restores to us a work of historical and literary importance but offers the genius of one of our greatest living poets to reinforce its claims on the reader of contemporary literature.

Book information

ISBN: 9780374518943
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub date:
DEWEY: FIC
Language: English
Number of pages: 96
Weight: 186g
Height: 234mm
Width: 149mm
Spine width: 9mm