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Reviewed on October 1, 2003
Issued in Great Britain in 1999, this is a collection of the wartime "Cruiskeen Lawn" columns written by O'Brien's (At Swim-Two-Birds; The Dalkey Archive) and published in the Irish Times from 1940 to 1945 under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen. Although the chapters bear titles (e.g., "The Shy Child," "Education," "In Extremis"), they are hardly thematic. Other, more thematically organized "Lawn" collections are available (The Best of M...Log In or Sign Up to Read More