The Holy City - Softcover

McCabe, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596916117 ISBN 13: 9781596916111

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2008

Synopsis

Reflecting on his public life and a darker existence he has struggled to forget, Chris, the illegitimate son of a wealthy Protestant landowner's wife and a poor Catholic farmer, becomes increasing obsessed with a young Catholic Nigerian boy and hides the shame of his birth. Original. 25,000 first printing.

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Review:

'McCabe has made unreliable narrators his stock-in-trade, and they do not come much more unreliable than sexagenarian boulevardier Chris J. McCool Throw in a dashing Nigerian and small-town Ireland at its most incestuous and bigoted, and you have a typical McCabe cocktail: black comedy delivered with tongue-in-cheek effervescence' Mail on Sunday 'Few people can make an unreliable narrator and a vigorously scrambled time-scheme as compelling as McCabe can, and his story telling powers are in full flow in The Holy City' Guardian 'A hall of mirrors [McCool's] intensifying madness, religious and sexual confusion and mental deterioration are painful to read and cleverly drawn; real and imagined events are veiled with McCabe's engaging lyricism' The Times 'A masterly handling of the macabre sometimes that numb surface generates a brilliantly deadpan meeting of the eerie and the comic' Daily Telegraph

Book Description:

A brilliant, disturbing and compelling novel from one of Ireland's most original contemporary writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1596916117
• ISBN 13: 9781596916111
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212