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Paperback. 'Would you believe me if I told you that I was only nine years of age when I killed him?' In a paint-splattered room, a young and successful Irish painter confronts his shocking and murderous past - a dark day on the beach at Bundoran, Co Donegal, when he quietly dispatched a palaeontologist with his own geological hammer. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 139. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
'Would you believe me if I told you that I was only nine years of age when I killed him?' In a paint-splattered room, a young and successful Irish painter confronts his shocking and murderous past- a dark day on the beach at Bundoran, Co. Donegal, when he quietly dispatched a palaeontologist with his own geological hammer. His life is further disrupted by the beautiful Billy Maguire, an Ingrid Bergman lookalike who leads him all the way to Prague and involves him-and his beloved and devoutly paranoid grandmother-in yet another grievous crime. Struggling to keep reality and unreality apart, he ... Read more
'Would you believe me if I told you that I was only nine years of age when I killed him?' In a paint-splattered room, a young and successful Irish painter confronts his shocking and murderous past- a dark day on the beach at Bundoran, Co. Donegal, when he quietly dispatched a palaeontologist with his own geological hammer. His life is further disrupted by the beautiful Billy Maguire, an Ingrid Bergman lookalike who leads him all the way to Prague and involves him-and his beloved and devoutly paranoid grandmother-in yet another grievous crime. Struggling to keep reality and unreality apart, he ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099285137
SKU
KKD0005875
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About John Kelly
John Kelly was born in 1965 in County Fermanagh. He works as a writer and broadcaster mainly for RTE and The Irish Times. He is the author of The Little Hammer (2000) and Sophisticated Boom Boom (2003). Married with one daughter, he lives in Dublin.
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