The Book of Judas, Brendan Kennelly's 400-page epic poem in twelve parts, was the number one bestselling book in Ireland. The Little Book of Judas is a distillation of that literary monster, purged to its traitorous essence. But Judas never goes away. He continued to worm his way into Kennelly's imagination long after the original book was "finished", and The Little Book of Judas includes some damning new revelations from the eternal scapegoat and outcast. Not merely lost but irredeemable, Kennelly's bitterly articulate Judas speaks, dreams and murmurs - of past and present, history and myth, good and evil, of men, women and children, and of course money - until we realise that the unspeakable perpetrator of the apparently unthinkable, in penetrating the icy reaches of his own world, becomes a sly, many-voiced critic of ours.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 04/27/2002
ISBN: 9781852245849
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.66w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Booklist 01/01/2003 pg. 837
Booklist 04/01/2003 pg. 1367