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Here are the Young Men
Rob Doyle
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Description for Here are the Young Men
Paperback. Meet Matthew, Rez, Cocker and Kearney. Facing the void of their post-school lives, the boys spend their first summer of freedom in a savage apprenticeship on the streets of Dublin. Roaming aimlessly through the city, fuelled by drugs and dark fantasies, the teenagers spiral into self-destruction, fleeing a reality they despise. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 250.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 'NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR' AWARD
CHOSEN AS ONE OF 'IRELAND'S 20 GREATEST NOVELS SINCE 1916' BY HOT PRESS MAGAZINE
Meet Matthew, Rez, Cocker and Kearney. Facing the void of their post-school lives, the boys spend their first summer of freedom in a savage apprenticeship on the streets of Dublin. Roaming aimlessly through the city, fuelled by drugs and dark fantasies, the teenagers spiral into self-destruction, fleeing a reality they despise.
Here Are the Young Men portrays a chilling spiritual fallout, harbinger of the collapse of a national illusion. Visceral and blackly funny, this debut novel marks the arrival of a powerful literary talent who releases an unnerving anarchic energy to devastating effect.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408863732
SKU
V9781408863732
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99-99
About Rob Doyle
Rob Doyle was born in Dublin and holds a first-class honours degree in Philosophy and an MPhil in Psychoanalysis from Trinity College Dublin. Rob Doyle’s widely acclaimed first novel, Here Are the Young Men, was published in 2014 by Bloomsbury and the Lilliput Press. It was chosen as a book of the year by the Irish Times, Independent, Sunday Times and Sunday Business Post, and was shortlisted in the Best Newcomer category for the Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards. It was also named as one Ireland's twenty greatest novels since 1916 by Hot Press magazine. Rob’s fiction, essays and criticism have been published in many newspapers and journals. He currently lives in Paris.
Reviews for Here are the Young Men
For sheer bravery and for style, for its integrity of vision and for its uncompromising tone, I also admired Rob Doyle’s Here Are The Young Men
Colm Toibin, Irish Times Books of the Year
A powerful, passionate and electrifying novel. Many writers try to recreate the traumas and anxieties of teenage years in fiction but very few manage it with as much conviction as Rob Doyle
John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
A fine debut. It shines a light into a relatively unexplored region: the psyches of youth adrift in a world where old verities no longer exist ... A rollicking good read. God may be dead, but a new literary star is born
Sunday Times
The language is unflinching, the story uncompromising … A powerful and provocative novel and easily the most honest account of young Irish people for many years
Guardian
A dark and intoxicating debut
Irish Independent
A lament for the blank generation, the literary equivalent of the song from which it takes its name, Joy Division’s Decades … a powerful debut, maybe the first novel since Kevin Power’s Bad Day in Blackrock to interrogate the dark side of the young Irish male’s psyche
Irish Times
A portrait of a jilted generation … a brilliant Dublin novel and an exercise in honesty
Sunday Times
Matthew, the angsty Dublin protagonist of this impressive debut, exemplifies a teenage malaise of worry, hedonism and burgeoning sexual inadequacy … Doyle is excellent at depicting the dangers of drugs on young minds and the ways first-person video games, internet porn, snuff films and booze can fertilise latent personality disorders
Metro
It’s been dubbed the Irish Trainspotting, making a statement about disillusioned and disaffected young people. A new voice to watch
Woman's Way
Unblinking depiction of male desperation
James Kidd, Independent Debuts of the Year
Colm Toibin, Irish Times Books of the Year
A powerful, passionate and electrifying novel. Many writers try to recreate the traumas and anxieties of teenage years in fiction but very few manage it with as much conviction as Rob Doyle
John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
A fine debut. It shines a light into a relatively unexplored region: the psyches of youth adrift in a world where old verities no longer exist ... A rollicking good read. God may be dead, but a new literary star is born
Sunday Times
The language is unflinching, the story uncompromising … A powerful and provocative novel and easily the most honest account of young Irish people for many years
Guardian
A dark and intoxicating debut
Irish Independent
A lament for the blank generation, the literary equivalent of the song from which it takes its name, Joy Division’s Decades … a powerful debut, maybe the first novel since Kevin Power’s Bad Day in Blackrock to interrogate the dark side of the young Irish male’s psyche
Irish Times
A portrait of a jilted generation … a brilliant Dublin novel and an exercise in honesty
Sunday Times
Matthew, the angsty Dublin protagonist of this impressive debut, exemplifies a teenage malaise of worry, hedonism and burgeoning sexual inadequacy … Doyle is excellent at depicting the dangers of drugs on young minds and the ways first-person video games, internet porn, snuff films and booze can fertilise latent personality disorders
Metro
It’s been dubbed the Irish Trainspotting, making a statement about disillusioned and disaffected young people. A new voice to watch
Woman's Way
Unblinking depiction of male desperation
James Kidd, Independent Debuts of the Year