TY - BOOK N2 - A comic look at Irish life. The narrator is Finbarr, an orphan raised amid the odor of good whisky and bad cooking. With a mixture of admiration and unease he watches his brother, Manus, turn into a young man of business, successful enough to move to England. AB - A comic look at Irish life. The narrator is Finbarr, an orphan raised amid the odor of good whisky and bad cooking. With a mixture of admiration and unease he watches his brother, Manus, turn into a young man of business, successful enough to move to England. T1 - The hard life :an exegesis of squalor / DA - 1994. CY - Normal, IL : AU - O'Brien, Flann, ET - 1st Dalkey Archive ed. CN - PR6029.N56 CN - PR6029.N56 PB - Dalkey Archive Press, PP - Normal, IL : PY - 1994. ID - 259441 KW - Brothers KW - Orphans SN - 1564781410 (pbk.) SN - 1564780422 (trade pbk.) TI - The hard life :an exegesis of squalor / ER -