The Tailor and Ansty [B0084]

1964 HCDJ American reprint of the 1942 Great Britain original, with some wear (see photo). This biography of a colorful Irish couple was banned soon after its first publication in 1942 and became the subject of much bitter controversy. It has since become a modern Irish classic, promising to make immortal the Tailor and his irrepressible wife, Ansty. The Tailor never traveled further than Scotland, yet the breadth of the world could not contain the wealth of his humor and fantasy. All human life is here – marriages, inquests, matchmaking, wakes – and always the Tailor, his wife, and their black cow.

From Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "The characters in this book are extraordinary, so ebullient and unusual and idiosyncratic that it's difficult to believe they existed, and yet they did. The entire story would make a very engaging and entertaining stage play. The audience would be exhausted by the sweeping and bantering and exclaiming."; "A true delight. The spirit and energy of the Tailor and Ansty sings on through these pages several decades after they were first set down. Irrepressible, joyful, and kind. A poignant end but, whatever hardships came about because of the book, Eric Cross gifts the Tailor and Ansty lasting legacies that those who would censor can never suppress."; "This book brilliantly put the reader into the home of Tailor and Antsy. Their banter was hysterical! It went to the heart of the culture!"