Books Extra: Audrey Magee's The Colony

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What is it about Irish storytelling: that combination of poetry and pain, brutality and a wicked laugh or ten? All that lyrical toughness, and a sense of a history punctuated by a drumbeat of violence, is on display in Audrey Magee's novel, The Colony. A conversation with Kate EvansOther books and writers mentioned in this conversation:Emily Dickinson, worksMarcel Proust, worksJames Joyce, worksColette, worksPeig: The autobiography of Peig SayersWilliam Butler Yeats, works

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