- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Paris Press; Reprint edition (July 1 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0963818325
- ISBN-13: 978-0963818324
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.3 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,098,523 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Library Journal
Though receiving high praise from critics when initially published in 1965, this novel nonetheless soon went out of print. Set in Ireland's County Kerry during the pagan Puck Fair, the plot offers up large doses of human sexuality. This edition is based on the corrected text version that was published a few years after the original.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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“ The Orgy is about the author’s own psychological transformation as the place colors and shapes her interior life.” THE WASHINGTON POST
"Haunting…. The author may have left a few sore bones behind her in Ireland, where we do not relish having the exact nature and extent of our festivities described in cold print. But she has an honest and inquiring mind. She didn't agree with the Irish woman who thought that, after America, everything in Ireland must look shabby. No, said Muriel Rukeyser, Ireland looks real. This American poet has a quick eye, too, for the things I find I love: the moon over Dublin and the mythic Post Office; the eternal fisherman casting a fly over the River Laune; the fuchsia blossoms that are the 'tears of Kerry.'" NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“In this sensual documentary…the reader is swept from observer into participant in a ‘whole new world.’ ” ADRIENNE RICH
"Beauty and power and imagination….” JOSEPH HELLER
"A true delight." KAY BOYLE
"Brilliant … full of vivid language and people half embarrassed, half excited, swept up in a mixture of Guinness and the sheer glamour of a ritual which has come from wilder, pre-Christian times." THE OBSERVER
" The Orgy has … enlarged the meaning of 'luminous.'" THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR
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More Entertaining than an Orgy,
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This intensely interesting book, part fiction, part memoir, and part stream-of-consciousness writing, has such a unique premise (a trip to Ireland to research a wild festival first hand) that it would have been a great book even without a good writing style. Nevertheless, Rukeyser's startlingly vivid poetic sentences are a key reason to read this book as well. The narrator/author's observations are so detailed that the reader feels as though he or she is in Ireland with her. By some miracle, the details never slow the book down; I found myself regretting how quickly I'd gobbled down this marvelous book (two days). I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys travel memoirs, engaging novels, or prose poems.
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More Entertaining than an Orgy,
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This review is from: The Orgy (Paperback)
This intensely interesting book, part fiction, part memoir, and part stream-of-consciousness writing, has such a unique premise (a trip to Ireland to research a wild festival first hand) that it would have been a great book even without a good writing style. Nevertheless, Rukeyser's startlingly vivid poetic sentences are a key reason to read this book as well. The narrator/author's observations are so detailed that the reader feels as though he or she is in Ireland with her. By some miracle, the details never slow the book down; I found myself regretting how quickly I'd gobbled down this marvelous book (two days). I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys travel memoirs, engaging novels, or prose poems.
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