Great list! You've read much more than I have. I can't handle Joyce. (I've always thought Stephen Dedalus should be punched in the face.) But I'm lucky to have seen two splendid (moving and funny) Godots with spectacular casts:.The Mike Nichols 1988 production at Lincoln Center with Steve Martin and Robin Williams as Vladamir and Estragon, F. Murray Abraham as Pozzo, Bill Irvin as Lucky, and Lucas Haas as the Boy. Also Bill Hutt's 1968 production at the Stratford with Powys Thomas and Eric Donkin as the tramps and James Blendick as Pozzo and Adrian Pecknold as Lucky.
Susan Lanigan's first world war novel "White Feathers"
J.P Donleavy"s The Ginger Man
Joseph O Connor is well regarded.... Haven't read him but Star of the Sea is well thought of
Mary Dorcey Law of Desire
Emma Donoghue"s first and very lesbian novel (can't remember it's name)
Flann O Brien.... Any of his books really but The Poor Mouth will have you in stitches. Third Policemen is a cracker of a book, but Dalkey Archive good also
There's a lot of contemporary Irish fiction that doesn't get regarded as "literary" that's fun, Marian Keyes Watermelon, anything by Maeve Binchy. Ingrid Black's crime novels (you might know her on Twitter under her real name, Eilis O Hanlon)
Great list! You've read much more than I have. I can't handle Joyce. (I've always thought Stephen Dedalus should be punched in the face.) But I'm lucky to have seen two splendid (moving and funny) Godots with spectacular casts:.The Mike Nichols 1988 production at Lincoln Center with Steve Martin and Robin Williams as Vladamir and Estragon, F. Murray Abraham as Pozzo, Bill Irvin as Lucky, and Lucas Haas as the Boy. Also Bill Hutt's 1968 production at the Stratford with Powys Thomas and Eric Donkin as the tramps and James Blendick as Pozzo and Adrian Pecknold as Lucky.
So much depends on casting with Beckett.
and the director, for sure! There's a rhythm there that needs to be found, I suspect.
Was the Martin-Williams Godot funny? Please tell me it was.
May I recommend a few more?
Susan Lanigan's first world war novel "White Feathers"
J.P Donleavy"s The Ginger Man
Joseph O Connor is well regarded.... Haven't read him but Star of the Sea is well thought of
Mary Dorcey Law of Desire
Emma Donoghue"s first and very lesbian novel (can't remember it's name)
Flann O Brien.... Any of his books really but The Poor Mouth will have you in stitches. Third Policemen is a cracker of a book, but Dalkey Archive good also
There's a lot of contemporary Irish fiction that doesn't get regarded as "literary" that's fun, Marian Keyes Watermelon, anything by Maeve Binchy. Ingrid Black's crime novels (you might know her on Twitter under her real name, Eilis O Hanlon)