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A wealthy American is burdened by a recurrent dream about his native Ireland, a country that had long ceased to interest or trouble him. Convinced that the Irish are asking him for help, he equips his errant grand-nephew, Tom Blessman, with a generous bank account, and dispatches him to the old country to offer assistance. In Dublin, Tom is bewildered to find a city thronged with glossy, happening people and an economy in overdrive. The Irish apparently want for nothing. As Tom attempts to make sense of it all - and to resolve his own personal history - he falls in with a fascinating gallery of characters, some of them super-rich, some trying to make their way in this opportunistic new world, and others pinning their hopes and ambitions to art, literature and 'heritage projects'. Central to this alluring scene is the sprawling Kinane family, especially Eileen, the lost soul of the family, whose waif-like beauty Tom pursues through the city's bars, art galleries and parties, becoming ever more entangled with the dangerous Irish merry-go-round. Teeming with brilliant characters, clamorous with the life of Dublin's pubs and cafes, and the atmosphere of its streets, "The Free And Easy" is a hugely entertaining and mordant take on Ireland past and present from one of Ireland's most stylish and interesting writers.
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"A virtuoso performance...in turns hilarious, tender and acerbic". -- Literary Review
"Haverty’s entertaining satire paints a vibrant picture of 21st Century Ireland." -- Mail on Sunday
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"Haverty’s entertaining satire paints a vibrant picture of 21st Century Ireland." -- Mail on Sunday
The novel we have all been waiting for from Anne Haverty (author of the much loved One Day as a Tiger) - a delightfully quirky, witty satire of the 'New Ireland' through the eyes of a bewildered American adrift in Dublin.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0701179740
- ISBN 13 9780701179748
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- Number of pages288
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