Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Killoyle: An Irish Farce (American Literature)
Roger Boylan
€ 14.99
€ 14.84
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Killoyle: An Irish Farce (American Literature)
Paperback. Series: American Literature S. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 432.
Proving that the spirits of James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, and Samuel Beckett still flow in the veins of at least one Irish writer, Roger Boylan has composed a novel filled with hilarity and doom about the inhabitants of the Irish town of Killoyle: Milo Rogers, a headwaiter and would-be poet with a bit of a drinking problem and a bit of a sexual one; Kathy Hickman, a writer for the woman's fashion magazine Glam, as well as a former pin-up girl; Wolfetone Grey, who reads books only by or about God, and who also makes anonymous phone calls through-out the ... Read more
Proving that the spirits of James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, and Samuel Beckett still flow in the veins of at least one Irish writer, Roger Boylan has composed a novel filled with hilarity and doom about the inhabitants of the Irish town of Killoyle: Milo Rogers, a headwaiter and would-be poet with a bit of a drinking problem and a bit of a sexual one; Kathy Hickman, a writer for the woman's fashion magazine Glam, as well as a former pin-up girl; Wolfetone Grey, who reads books only by or about God, and who also makes anonymous phone calls through-out the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
Series
American Literature S.
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564781451
SKU
V9781564781451
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Roger Boylan
Roger Boylan is an American writer who was raised in Ireland, France, and Switzerland and attended the University of Ulster and the University of Edinburgh. His novel Killoyle was published in 1997 by Dalkey Archive Press and has been reprinted four times. In 2003, a sequel, The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad, was published by Grove Press, New York. German versions of ... Read more
Reviews for Killoyle: An Irish Farce (American Literature)
"...hilarious Irish farce, a first novel that captures the absurdly comic spirits of Joyce and Beckett in its depiction of an Emerald Isle town peopled by some most peculiar folk, indeed."
Library Journal
Library Journal