by Brendan Behan · Arrow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099706502
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«Borstal Boy» is the autobiography of Irish writer Brendan Behan, published by Arrow in paperback (372 pages, in English).
In 1939, aged sixteen, Brendan Behan is arrested in Liverpool for carrying explosives for the IRA and sentenced to three years in the English Borstal reformatory. The work recounts his life in that brutal and hostile environment, where he finds friendship, solidarity and humour, and is considered a classic of Irish literature.
Autobiography of Irish writer Brendan Behan (1923-1964), originally published in 1958; this Arrow edition dates from 1990. The work was adapted into a film in 2000.
For readers of Irish literature, prison memoirs and the political history of Ireland.
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican, an activist who wrote in both English and Irish. His widely acknowledged alcohol dependence, despite attempts to treat it, impacted his creative capacities and contributed to health and social problems which curtailed his artistic output and finally his life. He is widely regarded as one of Ireland's greatest writers.
