Foggage - Softcover

McGinley, Patrick

3.9

52 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140074104 ISBN 13: 9780140074109

Publisher: Penguin, 1984

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Kevin and Maureen Hurley, middle-aged twins living in remote Irish farming country with their bedridden father, look for a plausible sire for the child Maureen believes she is carrying

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Review:

'An imaginative, expertly turned dark comedy, informed by some splendid dialogue and a sensual feel for the claims of the soil ... Patrick McGinley is a very gifted man. He knows his Irish bog as well as Isaac Bashevis Singer does the shtetl, and he can sing about it with something like the same magic.' --New York Times

'Patrick McGinley's gifts for resonant dialogue, sexual frictions, graphic violence, and peripeteia have been well noted for over three decades by readers and critics who relish the extravagances of getting lost beyond the Pale. --Times Literary Supplement

If ever proof was needed that art is not a meritocracy, and success relies more on luck than talent, you ll find it in Patrick McGinley's Bogmail. First published in 1978, reissued by New Island, this is not just a great crime novel but a great work of literature. --Irish Independent

About the Author:

Patrick McGinley was born in Glencolmcille, Co. Donegal. He is the author of eight novels and lives in Kent. He is a talented and well known author, described by Mordecai Richler of The New York Times 'A very gifted man. He knows his Irish bog as well as Isaac Bashevis Singer does the shtetl, and he can sing about it with something like the same magic.'

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