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Samuel Beckett - More Pricks Than Kicks

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Beckett's anti-hero, in these ten short stories, is Belacqua, a Dublin student and philanderer.
 

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Tales of a Dublin slacker by then-Dublin-slacker Samuel Beckett

Date of Review:  Dec 20, 2006
The Bottom Line: The Irish start of Beckett's misanthropy
Review: In addition to being the centennial of the birth of Dmitri Shostakovich, 2006 is the centennial of the birth of Samuel Beckett. In something of a binge of Irish culture last month I read Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks, a 1932 collection of...
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? maybe "Dante and the Lobster"
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central character, ponderous attempts...
 
 

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Authors Samuel Beckett
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  Newsweek: "One could say that [Beckett's] first sentence as a fictionist is the first sentence of this book, and no writer ever started his career with a more beautiful ripple of words, of one more resonant with the flow of his sensibility....This first book is very much a first book, but it's what you want a first book to be--full of a genius's jive, arrogance and pedantry, leaping for the moon and insisting that the ensuing pratfalls are part of the virtuosity...."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: John Calder Pub Ltd (March 01, 1993)
Measurements: 8"(h) x 5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.45 lbs.
ISBN: 9780714507057
 

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