City of Bohane - Couverture souple

Barry, Professor Of English Literature Kevin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 155597645X ISBN 13 : 9781555976453

Editeur : Graywolf Press, 2013

Synopsis

Book by Barry Kevin

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are still some posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin' that the city really lives. For years, Bohane has been in the cool grip of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But now they say his old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious and there's trouble in the air...

'Astonishing' Guardian

'Compelling' Irish Times

'Exuberant' Metro

'Brilliant' Roddy Doyle

'Addictive' Sunday Times

'Hilarious' Financial Times

'Arresting' Irvine Welsh

'Bold' Independent on Sunday

'Electrifying' Joseph O'Connor

'Zingy' Sunday Times

'Exhilarating' Irish Sunday Times

'Sizzling' Scotsman

'Darkly funny' Cosmopolitan

'Engrossing' Time Out

'Fizzing' Glasgow Herald

'Swaggering' Daily Mail

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award

Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are the posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin' that the city really lives.

For years, the city has been in the cool grip of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But there's trouble in the air. They say his old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious; and his missus wants him to give it all up and go straight... And then there's his mother.

City of Bohane is a visionary novel that blends influences from film and the graphic novel, from Trojan beats and calypso rhythms, from Celtic myth and legend, from fado and the sagas, and from all the great inheritance of Irish literature. A work of mesmerising imagination and vaulting linguistic invention, it is a taste of the glorious and new.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Graywolf Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 155597645X
• ISBN 13: 9781555976453
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 309