Poguemahone

Poguemahone
Patrick McCabe
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Hardback
h222 x 141mm - 624pg
14 Apr 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781800181113
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Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate. From Dan' s anarchic account, we gradually piece together the story of the Fogarty family. How the parents are exiled from a small Irish village and end up living the hard immigrant life in England. How Dots, the mother, becomes a call girl in 1950s Soho. How a young and overweight Una finds herself living in a hippie squat in Kilburn in the early 1970s. How the squat appears to be haunted by vindictive ghosts who eat away at the sanity of all who live there. And, finally, how all that survives now of those sex-and-drug-soaked times are Una' s unspooling memories as she sits outside in the Margate sunshine, and Dan himself, whose role in the story becomes stranger and more sinister. Poguemahone is a wild, free-verse monologue, steeped in music and folklore, crammed with characters, both real and imagined, on a scale Patrick McCabe has never attempted before.
' If you' re looking for this century' s Ulysses, look no further than Patrick McCabe' s Poguemahone, a stunningly lyrical novel in free verse' Alex Preston, Observer
Patrick McCabe was born in 1955 in Clones, County Monaghan. He is the author of The Butcher Boy, which won the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction, The Dead School,Breakfast on Pluto and others. The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Winterwood was named the 2007 Irish Independent Irish Novel of the Year. He lives in Dublin.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781800181113
Published: 14 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Unbound
Publisher: Unbound
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 141mm
Pages: 624

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