MAD BAD DANGEROUS TO KNOW (PB)

With his inimitable wit and sensitivity, Colm Tóibín introduces us to Wilde Senior, the philandering doctor whose libel case prefigured that of his son; the elder Yeats, an impoverished artist who never finished a painting; and to John Stanislaus Joyce, the hard-drinking, storytelling father of James, who couldn't feed his own family. This illuminating study shows how each of these men cast a long shadow over their famous sons, and of the works those sons created.