New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this award-winning writer, born in Northern Ireland, who emigrated to Canada and eventually settled in California. When his marriage to a successful actress ends in failure, Jamie Mangan, "an unsuccessful poet and sometime journalist, discovers that he may be descended from James Clarence Mangan, a drink and drug-taking bohemian Irish poet of a century and a half ago, and sets out to investigate his ancestry." 336 pp. ISBN: 0-374201943.