Binding: Paperback
Date Published: 01 Jan 2026
Hilariously Irish, shrewdly accurate and richly creative.The Irish TimesThere are more shades to his humour than there are colours in the rainbow.The Irish ExaminerI grew up in a time when there was no alternative to the letter as a means of communication except, of coarse, in the case of emergency, when the phone in the local barracks of the Civic Guards became the extreme resort ...In this collection of some of his finest letters, John B. Keane, novelist, playwright and literary man extraordinaire, turns the letter as a means of communication into a comic, sometimes surreal art form.