No News at Throat Lake - Softcover

Donegan, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671785443 ISBN 13: 9780671785444

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2001

Synopsis

Lawrence Donegan's dream is a modest one, really. The intrepid journalist longs for a quiet, simple life far from the filth and noise of the big city. And he thinks he'll find it in Creeslough. "No News at Throat Lake" From the moment Donegan arrives in the quaint Irish village, he isplunged into the problems and pitfalls of rural living. First, he needs todrain his home of water. Then he needs to find a job. After a brief and bloody stint as a Creeslough farmer -- dubbed "Quentin Tarantino's "All Creatures Great and Small"" -- Donegan decides to go back to his writing roots.He takes a job at the Tirconaill Tribune, a blindly idealistic, libel-slinging tabloid run by two men and a dog. Thus begins a passionate love affair between a big-city hack and a small-town rag. Sublimely funny and effortlessly hip, "No News at Throat Lake" is a refreshing memoir of Irish life and times. Filled with unexpected curiosities and predicaments, it's a hilarious, sharp-edged portrayal that ponders what every foreigner wants to know about Ireland -- "what's it like to live there, anyway?"

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Review:

"BookPage" A wild Irish romp....Affectionately acerbic, Donegan is a hipper Peter Mayle in Provence.

Synopsis:

In a whimsical memoir and travelogue, the journalist and author of Maybe It Should Have Been a Three Iron describes how he sought refuge from the noise, dirt, and hectic lifestyle of London in the rural, idiosyncratic village of Creeslough, Ireland, where he takes a job with the Tirconaill Tribune, a small-town, libel-slinging tabloid. Reprint.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0671785443
• ISBN 13: 9780671785444
• Binding: Paperback