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It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog, is launched into space, Golly Murray, the Cullymore barber's wife, finds herself oddly obsessing about the canine cosmonaut. Meanwhile, Fonsey "Teddy" O'Neill is returning, like the prodigal son, from overseas, with Brylcreem in his hair and a Cuban-heeled swagger to his step, having experienced his coming-of-age in Skegness, England. Father Augustus Hand is working on a bold new theatrical production for Easter, which he, for one, knows will put Cullymore on the map. And, as the Manchester United football team prepares to take off from Munich airport, James A. Reilly sits in his hovel by the lake outside town, with his pet fox and his father's gun, feeling the weight of an insidious and inscrutable presence pressing down upon him.
As these imperiled characters wrestle with their identities, mysteriously powerful narrator plucks, gently, at the strings of their fates, and watches the twitching response. This novel is a devil's-eye view of a lost era, a sojourn to the dark side of our past, one we may not have come back from. With echoes of Peyton Place and Fellini's Amarcord, and with a sinister narrator at its heart, this is at once a story of a small town—with its secrets, fears, friendships, and betrayals—and a sweeping, theatrical extravagance from one of the finest writers of his generation.
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'Powerful, razor-sharp and with a depth that calls to mind The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner ... McCabe is the real McCoy' Russell Hoban 'A hilarious circumnavigation around an Irish town and its vagabond inhabitants, in the grand tradition of Somerville and Ross and Flann O'Brien' Edna O'Brien 'Dazzling and wonderful Patrick McCabe orchestrates all of his familiar themes into a mesmerising tapestry of small town dreams and nightmares. He is master of his universe here, and what a universe it is' Neil Jordan 'It is a true delight to re-enter the world of one of the most exuberant and entertaining contemporary writers' Daily Mail
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Strangely elegiac, gloriously operatic and driven by Pat McCabe's wild and savage imagination, The Stray Sod Country is an eerie folk tale that chronicles the passing of a generation.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Pub Plc USA
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1608192741
- ISBN 13 9781608192748
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages339
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