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Description
As Chris McCool looks back on the glory days of his youth, the swinging sixties of rural Ireland, he can honestly say he had it all. He had the moves, he had the car, and he had Dolly, a woman who called him 'Mr Wonderful'. But there was another Mr Wonderful in town, a young Nigerian named Marcus whose dazzling devoutness was all but irresistible. Of course Chris was interested in Marcus only because of their mutual appreciation of the finer things. That was all. But Chris was always a hopeless romantic - perhaps even occasionally obsessive.
Spiked with macabre humour and disquieting revelations, The Holy City is brilliant, disturbing and compelling.
Product details
Published | 01 Feb 2010 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 224 |
ISBN | 9781408800751 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Paperbacks |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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'Black comedy delivered with tongue-in-cheek effervescence'
Mail on Sunday
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'Few people can make an unreliable narrator and a vigorously scrambled time-scheme as compelling as McCabe can'
Guardian
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'A hall of mirrors ... Real and imagined events are veiled with McCabe's engaging lyricism'
The Times
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'A masterly handling of the macabre ... brilliantly deadpan'
Daily Telegraph