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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.
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"Sweet Baba Jay, what an unforgettably wonderful novel: hilarious, unique, utterly believable. It's Joyce meets Anthony Burgess, and as funny as Flann O'Brien. We Kevin Barry fans have known for a while that he is a writer of rarest gifts, but this book is an electrifying masterpiece" (Joseph O'Connor)
"City of Bohane testifies to, and beautifully illustrates, the mad glory of the human imagination. It should be met with parties and parades and pyrotechnics" (Niall Griffiths)
"Unforgettably wonderful...an electrifying masterpiece" (Irish Independent)
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"City of Bohane testifies to, and beautifully illustrates, the mad glory of the human imagination. It should be met with parties and parades and pyrotechnics" (Niall Griffiths)
"Unforgettably wonderful...an electrifying masterpiece" (Irish Independent)
This is the cool, comic, violent and lyrical debut novel from one of Ireland's most talented new writers.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0224090577
- ISBN 13 9780224090575
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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