Bonus Myles

From: The Boston Globe | Date: March 9, 2008| Author: Katherine A.Powers; Powers lives in Cambridge. Her column appears on alternate Sundays. She can be reached by e-mail at pow3@verizon.net. | Copyright information

A Reading Life

The once-unimaginable has happened: Flann O'Brien (d. 1966) has found a place in the Everyman's Library - and the event has opened the door to my writing about this incomparable Irish writer again. The snug, cloth-bound, ribbon-embellished volume ($25) contains all four novels written under the pen name Flann O'Brien. It also includes Patrick C. Power's translation of "An Beal Bocht" ("The Poor Mouth"). Originally written in Irish, this ludicrous tale of misfortune was p...

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