Word: sean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VIVE MOI! by Sean O'Faolain. 374 pages. Little, Brown...
When Irish Novelist Sean O'Faolain (pronounced O'Faytawn) was 20 and a student at the University College in Cork, he wrote a poem containing the phrase "Mother Ireland's teeming navel"; he was subsequently astounded, he recalls, to learn from a medical student that in the history of medicine "no mother had yet been known to eject a baby through her belly-button...
...Gentleman. No one of the brothers quite made it to Gentleman, but two of them did well enough so that the family no longer had to "think small beer of themselves." One became a priest, the other a revenue inspector in the British Civil Service. The youngest, Sean, opted for writing-a decision that his mother never quite forgave...
Unhappily, this seaquel is even sillier than the original mocean picture-and Blood, as somebody remarked at the time, was thinner than water. But Son never lacks excitement. In rapid succession Sean 1) takes passage in a tall ship sailing from Port Royal, Jamaica, 2) falls in love with the beauteous Abigail (Alessandra Panaro), 3) runs afoul of Captain De Malagon, a nasty pirate who hated Captain Blood and is happy to loose his fury on the son and his lust on Abigail, 4) seizes the nasty pirate's ship, 5) storms a citadel, 6) frees all the slaves...
...Tammy Teen will, and she will squeal over Sean just as loud as mother eeeeeked for Errol. The boy looks like his old man-he has the same empty, eager eyes and the same silly, lopsided smile. And the young pup acts like the old dog too-he is already known in the trade as Flynn-Tin-Tin. But Sean has something going for him besides his moniker. He has an All-American body and a wild Irish charm. He seems born to be a Hollywood buccaneer and climb upon the rigging like his daddy used...