Le goret

Meet Pat McNab, forty-five years old, often to be found endlessly puffing smokes and propping up the counter of Sullivan's Select Bar or sitting on his mother's knee, both of them singing away together like some ridiculous two-headed human juke box. But that was all before the story really begins. Emerald Germs of Ireland is, in essence, Pat McNab's post-matricide year. This is another great romp from the master of black comedy.

Emerald Germs of Ireland

'It seemed as if the town of Carn, a huddled clump of windswept grey buildings split in two by a muddied main street, had somehow been spirited away and supplanted by a thriving, bustling place which bore no resemblance whatever to it. For a split second, she saw her own death, a gunmetal face fixed on the sky, all around the faces and voices of Carn as she had known it. Josie Keenan had come home to the town of Carn, the only home she knew' 'A unique record by somebody who understands that the reality of small-town life is as important in literature as any aspect of Ireland .

Carn

Malachy Dudgeon has escaped the misery and madness of his childhood home and landed a job in the most famous school in Dublin. The headmaster, Raphael Bell, has overcome his own tragedies to forge a model career, but when Malachy Dudgeon and Raphael Bell meet, they become inextricably engaged in a macabre relationship which proves fatal to their fortunes and their sanity. 'McCabe can make you howl at the darkest antics .

The Dead School

Tyreelin, un village à la frontière irlandaise. Patrick est le fils illégitime du curé local. Très jeune, il commence à se travestir et se fait appeler Pussy. À la mort de son amant et protecteur, un politicien victime du conflit irlandais, Pussy part à la recherche de sa mère dans le swinging London des années 1970. Mais sur la capitale anglaise aussi plane la menace du terrorisme, et Pussy, bien malgré elle, va se retrouver mêlée à un attentat à la bombe dans une discothèque... Un récit drôle et flamboyant, où la violence et la misère côtoient les paillettes et le glamour.

Breakfast on Pluto

"There is something special about the relationship we all have with our mothers .

Emerald Germs Of Ireland

'Dysfunctional Ireland in all its glories is here, with humour of the blackest hue, madness and violence, hopelessly randy priests, dodgy politicians, a grand gallery of misfits culminating in McCabe's hero in Breakfast on Pluto, Patrick "Pussy" Braden, the transvestite prostitute from the village of Tyreelin .

Francie BRADY se souvient de son enfance dans une bourgade de l'Irlande du Nord dans les années 60.Pour une banale histoire de bandes dessinées chapardées à un garçon du village, Francie, enfant difficile à l'émotivité maladive, raconte sa dérive inéluctable vers la violence et l'acte criminel. Ecrit sur le rythme d'une ballade, ce roman plein de bruit et de fureur est aussi un témoignage émouvant et drôle sur les ravages de la solitude, la ségrégation sociale, la bêtise et l'égoïsme.

Le goret

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