Patrick McCabe
Birth date: March 27, 1955
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Last year the Booker prize winner was Milkman by Anna Burns and what a disappointing read that proved to be. Set in Belfast this was a book of gossip told in the first person by "middle sister" in a very claustrophobic and confusing style. Why should I tell you this? quite simply it is only to draw ...
Dwells on corporeal suffering to the point of unbelievability and/or tedium. Not that I don't believe poor Irish boys did what their priests demanded for cigarettes, but dwelling on the bare details began to seem pointless. Possibly revelatory for Irish or other readers who didn't know any better. D...
Hmmm what to say about this book... The prose is great, but the story is almost incomprehensible at times. I found myself having to re-read paragraphs at several points just to figure out what the hell the author was saying. I think there was an interesting plot in there somewhere, but it was real...
Tout allait bien jusqu'au jour où la télé a fait pfit !Puis il s'est arrêté un peu pour dire Euh ! Euh ! quelques instants en hochant la tête comme ces poupées de chiffon qu'on voit à l'arrière des voitures.On y a collé le nez mais y avait pas un oeil en bille de loto en vue. Désolé : je suis absent...
READING NOTES:>1958....Cullymore, Ireland. SPUTNIK is in orbit and the village is in turmoil. A Parish Priest beset with Paranoia and Guilt...Housewives with thoughts of Murder...a Teddy Boy come home hoping to regain the Lass He Once Loved....the World in between the Serious 1950s...on the cusp of ...
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