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Spirited Men.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Date: 20050101
Author:Taylor, John

Spirited Men

Brian Doyle

Cowley Publications

4 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

1561012580 $14.95 www.cowley.org

Spirited Men: Story, Soul & Substance is a compendium of essays by Brian Doyle that focus upon a series of creative, influential, geographically and chronologically diverse men.. These are stories of talented, troubled, extraordinary men ranging from Plutarch, William Blake, Robert Louis Stevens, James Joyce, H. Rider Haggard, Jim Kjelgaard, Van Morrison, Paul Desmond, Graham Greene, Paul Kelly, and Bob Boehmer. The one thing each of these ...

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