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Description for Dublin
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Dublin was mucky and vulgar. Like a tourist who gets drunk and wakes up with a huge tattoo. This is what it's like for you: your name is Simon Dilion. You're 35. You're a failure. Too hungover to go to work, too lazy to get a new job, too keen to blame everyone else: your mad father, your estranged wife, your so-called friends. Blame them. Blame Dublin. You'd rather do a few lines of coke, but there's a beautiful French woman you can't remember meeting, cops banging on the door asking about a dead woman you don't know, Russian gangsters ... Read more
Dublin was mucky and vulgar. Like a tourist who gets drunk and wakes up with a huge tattoo. This is what it's like for you: your name is Simon Dilion. You're 35. You're a failure. Too hungover to go to work, too lazy to get a new job, too keen to blame everyone else: your mad father, your estranged wife, your so-called friends. Blame them. Blame Dublin. You'd rather do a few lines of coke, but there's a beautiful French woman you can't remember meeting, cops banging on the door asking about a dead woman you don't know, Russian gangsters ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552999076
SKU
KKD0006013
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Sean Moncrieff
A household name in Ireland, Sean Moncrieff has hosted various radio and tv programmes over the last decade. A journalist by training, he lives outside Dublin with his wife and three children. This is his first novel.
Reviews for Dublin
'Imagine an Irish Tarantino (if you can) and you'll begin to understand the dazzling netherworld on display in Sean Moncrieff's Dublin, where the shockingly violent rubs shoulders with the deeply hilarious. A composed, outlandish debut'. Stephen Amidon. author of The New City