Out After Dark
| By: | Hugh Leonard |
| Publisher: | Methuen Publishing Ltd |
| Published: | May 2002 |
| Pages: | 210 |
| Categories: | Autobiography |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Paperback |
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This is a companion volume to Hugh Leonard's "Home Before Night" containing anecdotes and stories of Leonard's coming of age and early adulthood in Dublin, and his subsequent move to London. Leonard aims to reveal a picture of Irish habits - social, cultural and religious.
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