Bogmail - Softcover

McGinley, Patrick

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140061959 ISBN 13: 9780140061956

Publisher: Penguin, 1982

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After Roarty, an ex-priest and a Donegal bar owner, kills his bartender and buries his body in a bog, he starts getting blackmail letters and is befriended by an Englishman who has just moved into the community

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Review:

'A rich and loving novel, Bogmail is full of wonder' New York Magazine.

'Dark, twisted and blackly hilarious' Declan Burke.

'A horrific concoction of filth ... a picture of life in Donegal that is revolting in the extreme ... A shocking libel' Donegal Democrat.

'A beguiling crime fiction-flavoured cocktail which McGinley serves up with lively, lyrical and literary flair while conjuring an evocatively rendered rural backdrop' Irish Times.

'There's a point in this book when you realise you are sinking into this scurrilously funny tale of murder and mania, and that you wouldn't have it any other way ... McGinley's use of language is a marvel ... There are snatches of Beckett in here, and oodles of what Joyce termed a "scrupulous meanness" in drawing the characters' Irish Examiner.

About the Author:

Patrick McGinley settled in Britain in the 1960s and now lives in Kent. His eight novels include Foggage, The Trick of the Ga Bolga and Goosefoot, which was made into a film.

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