The first novel by Joseph O'Connor, bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay.
Eddie Virago, proud owner of the last mohican haircut in Dublin, leaves his home town to find the fame and fortune he's convinced awaits in the wild world of the London rock scene.
Things don't quite go as planned, however. He finds himself living in a ramshackle hotel with a girl he met on the ferry over, while a bewildering array of acid-house ravers, saloon-bar revolutionaries, music-business wideboys and media primadonnas all seem very anxious to help Eddie on his way...
'Very funny... An immensely readable and entertaining book, full of truth about the world we live in' Sunday Independent
'Clever, wry and often hilarious...with sardonic, very knowing digs at youthful pretension' Time Out
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Caustic and entertaining * Sunday Times * Sharply observed and always entertaining * Independent * This is an impressive debut: a good story, well told, great characters, with sardonic, knowing digs at the youthful pretention...clever, wry and often hilarious * Time Out * Well-written, tremendously confident * Irish Independent * Characters that leap out at you like figures in a pop-up book. Joseph O'Connor's first novel suggests he is bound for fame * Observer *
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Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 199 mm
Breite: 129 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-09-949829-2 (9780099498292)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Joseph O'Connor's fiction has been published in forty languages. His twenty books include eleven novels, among them the million-selling Star of the Sea, Ghost Light, Shadowplay and My Father's House, a Washington Post Book of the Year. His work has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award, twice for the Whitbread/Costa and twice for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and has won the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio Acerbi and Premio Napoli, an American Library Association Award, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Hennessy Writer of the Year and Hall of Fame Awards, the Eason/An Post Novel of the Year Award, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.
www.josephoconnorauthor.com
