Bob Quinn is a writer, filmmaker and photographer. Born 1935 in Dublin, he has lived in the Galway Gaeltacht for the past fifty years. He is a member of Aosdána, the Irish parliament of artists and is an honorary D.Arts from University College Galway. His books include Smokey Hollow – a fictional memoir, An Tír Aneol – the unknown country – photography; Maverick – A dissident view of broadcasting; The Atlantean Irish – the book of the films; The Accompanist – novel; Darwin on the Shannon – a novel.
For recreation he grows trees and does wood sculpting.
The Specific Gravity of Water is a comic fantasy for adults.Mr. Trout is a misfit teaching creative writing at a minor state college who infringes the right-thinking mores of academe and must go on the run.He escapes to another country, almost entirely his own invention, called Ishkastan.There ever...
