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      Sweeney Astray

      by Seamus Heaney
      Published
      May 1984
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      96
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      Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. Heaney's translation not only restores to us a work of historical and literary importance but offers the genius of one of our greatest living poets to reinforce its claims on the reader of contemporary literature.

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      First Edition May 1984 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374272210 ISBN10 0374272212
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      Jan 2014 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9781466855809 ISBN10 1466855800
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      Jan 2014 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN10 B00HBQROS2
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