A Guest at the Feast

This remarkable collection of essays from Booker-nominated author Colm Tóibín reveals the places where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. The imprint of the written word on the private self, as Tóibín remarks, is extraordinarily powerful, and in A Guest at the Feast, that power is gloriously alive, illuminating history and literature, politics and power, family and the self.