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Ronan, Frank

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 034082056X ISBN 13 : 9780340820568

Editeur : Sceptre, 2002

Synopsis

Born on a Devon commune in the sixties to a teenage single mother, Coorg is declared to be the new Merlin by the group (until he is supplanted by Marc Bolan) and grows up on peace, love and brown rice - until Coorg's grandparents abduct him when he is 6, taking him back to Ireland where he is renamed Joseph and introduced to Mass, sweets, and the back of his grandmother's hand. Joe grows up in a small seaside town trying hard to fit into a dysfunctional family and a Church that doesn't seem to reward his efforts, but when he decides to be bad he finds sinning gets him no further. Then his feckless mother reappears, on the trail of the Holy Grail and (when Marc Bolan dies) after Joe as the messiah who will save the world. On the cusp of adulthood, his head churning with Catholicism, mysticism as well as the more usual teenage concerns, Joe finally cracks.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Frank Ronan was born in 1963 in Ireland. His first novel, 'The Men Who Loved Evelyn Cotton', won the 1989 Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize. Since then he has published the novels 'A Picnic in Eden', 'The Better Angel', 'Dixie Chicken' and 'Lovely', as well as a collection of short stories, 'Handsome Men Are Slightly Sunburnt'. He has also had work published in Best Short Stories, The Best of Cosmo Fiction and the Daily Telegraph, as well as broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sceptre
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 034082056X
• ISBN 13: 9780340820568
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible