Yeats is Dead
| By: | Anthony Cronin, Roddy Doyle, Marian Keyes, Pauline McLynn, Hugo Hamilton, Gina Moxley, Gene Kerrigan |
| Publisher: | Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Published: | June 2001 |
| Pages: | 306 |
| Categories: | Fiction |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Paperback |
| On sale at: | www.abebooks.com |
A serial novel by 15 of the brightest talents in Irish writing (including Marian Keyes, Pauline McLynn, Gina Moxley and Frank McCourt), telling an elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and literary shenanigans in present-day Dublin. Approximately #1 from every copy sold will go to Amnesty International.
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