Derek Mahon

An autobiographical testament of Jörg Fauser's self-deprecating, brutally honest, and oddly charming alter ego, Harry Gelb. Through Gelb, Fauser casts an eye over the times he lived as a junkie in Istanbul, in a commune in Berlin, and in a squat in Frankfurt, while working on an underground magazine, and trying ceaselessly to get a novel published.

New National Theatre, W.H. Rapley, manager, T. Arthur Smith, treasurer. Farewell American tour of Madame Sarah Bernhardt and M. Coquelin, under the direction of Mr. Maurice Grau, managing director of the Maurice Grau Opera Company, "Cyrano de Bergerac," drame en cinq acts et en vers de Edmond Rostand. Scenery painted by Mr. Homer Emons.

"Derek Mahon's rich new collection turns its wide-angled lens on a 'dozy seaside town' in County Cork, four fellow Ulster poets, a bicycle shop in Delhi and the volcanic origins of the Canary Islands, against the background of a 'cascading world economy'. Alive to the current climate, it also revisits Chinese poetry of the T'ang era and explores that of modern India in the work of the fictitious Hindi poet Gopal Singh."--BOOK JACKET.