I read a book by Nolan called "The Banyan Tree" which was fantastic. It's about a family that owns a dairy farm in rural Ireland, I want to say in Westmeath (but I could be wrong) and how the family starts to spread out and disintegrate. Ok that's a terrible summary of the book b/c it makes it sound really dull, and actually I think this book would be really boring if it were written by another author, but Nolan uses language remarkably well-his descriptions are brilliantly vivid.
I haven't read his poetry, but I just looked that up on Amazon, and found that the book of poetry he published in his teens is called "Dam Burst of Dreams," and the reviews compare him to Yeats and Joyce, which really makes me want to read it.
haha, I also find it amusing that on Amazon's "customers who bought this product also bought" list, HTDAAB and the Vertigo single are listed. Good thing for the world that Bono doesn't write songs about Susan Sontag or Danielle Steele, we'd really be in trouble.
