John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play chess in prison, and his ongoing search for peace of mind. This Penguin Classics edition includes an afterword by Colin MacCabe. In his searing autobiography Healy describes his fifteen years living rough in London without state aid, when begging carried an automatic three-year prison sentence and vagrant alcoholics prowled the parks and streets in search of drink or prey. When not united in their common aim of acquiring alcohol, winos sometimes murdered one another over prostitutes or a bottle, or the begging of money. Few modern writers have managed to match Healy's power to refine from the brutal destructive condition of the chronic alcoholic a story so compelling it is beyond comparison. John Healy (b. 1943) was born into an impoverished, Irish immigrant family, in the slums of Kentish Town, North London. Out of school by 14, pressed into the army and intermittently in prison, Healy became an alcoholic early on in life. Despite these obstacles Healy achieved remarkable, indeed phenomenal expertise in both writing and chess, as outlined in the autobiographical The Grass Arena. If you enjoyed The Grass Arena, you might like Last Exit to Brooklyn, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Sober and precise, grotesque, violent, sad, charming and hilarious all at once' Literary Review 'Beside it, a book like Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London seems a rather inaccurate tourist guide' Colin MacCabe

The Grass Arena

John Healy

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Classic

The Multistate Corporate Tax Guide Mid-Year Edition focuses on new and emerging issues in state and local taxation (SALT). The 2021 Multistate Corporate Tax Guide Mid-Year Edition is divided into five parts: Part I, Income and Franchise Taxes, contains a primer on multistate corporate taxation and the following new charts: Bonus Depreciation: Cares Act Fixes the Retail Glitch, Income from the Forgiveness of a Paycheck Protection Program Loan, Net Operating Loss Carryovers: Cares Act Relief Provisions, and Business Interest Expense Limitation: Cares Act Relief Provisions. Part II, Sales and Use Taxes, contains a new primer on sales and use taxation and the following new charts: NEXUS, Information Services, and COVID-19 Emergency Tax Exclusions and Exemptions. Part III, Administration, includes the following revised charts: Common Mistakes Corporations Make in Filing Returns and Paying Income Taxes and Common Mistakes Corporations Make in Filing Returns and Paying Sales Taxes. Part IV includes the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, as adopted on November 12, 2002 and amended through March 5, 2021, and the following five articles: More States Adopt Factor Presence Nexus Standards for Income and Gross Receipts Taxes, P.L. 86-272 “Cookies” and Nexus via Activities Conducted Through the Internet, State Corporate Income Tax Rates and Brackets for 2021, State Sales Tax Breadth and Reliance, Fiscal Year 2020, and State Individual Income Tax Rates and Brackets for 2021. Part V contains the State Website Directory and the State Corporate Income Tax and Sales and Use Tax Questionnaire (Abridged).

Multistate Corporate Tax Gide -- Mid-Year Edition (2022)

CCH, Inc.

John Healy, the author, has spent all his working life in journalism. He joined "The Western People", Ballina, as a cub reporter in 1948 and moved to Dublin in 1950 to join the Irish News Agency. Later he worked with the Irish Press Group before joining the Irish Times organisation in 1959, to become the youngest editor of a national newspaper, The Sunday Review. He went on to edit Ireland's oldest evening paper, The Evening Mail. As a freelance journalist he won the 1967 Television Scriptwriter of the Year Award, published his first book, Death of an Irish Town, which has become an important source book on the evolution of modern Ireland and, as well as being a best-seller, it is one of the most widely-quoted books of the last twenty years. Following its publication Healy was elected "Mayoman of the Year" for "the moral courage and integrity" he had shown in his writings. For close on two decades he wrote The Irish Times political column, "Backbencher", and in the one major study to date of the Irish media, Healy is described as "the father of modern political journalism in Ireland". Nineteen Acres is his second book. This time he pulls the focus tighter, for whereas Death of an Irish Town was a study of a rural Irish village, Nineteen Acres portrays life in the basic unit, the family smallholding. It was an instant success and, like his first book, was out of print within six months.

Nineteen Acres

Community & Culture

House of Healy

No One Shouted "Stop"

History

Europe

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