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Puckoon
Spike Milligan
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Description for Puckoon
Paperback. In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon. This book deals with this topic. Num Pages: 160 pages, 5 b/w drawings by author. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 45 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120. 156pp
DISCOVER PUCKOON, SPIKE MILLIGAN'S CLASSIC SLAPSTICK NOVEL
'Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks' Daily Mail
In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon.
Houses are divided from outhouses, husbands separated from wives, bars are cut off from their patrons, churches sundered from graveyards. And in the middle of it all is poor Dan Milligan, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Condition
New
Weight
119g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140023749
SKU
9780140023749
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan (1918-2002) was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Over the course of his astonishing career, he wrote over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.
Reviews for Puckoon
Bursts at the seams with superb comic characters involved in unbelievably likely troubles on the Irish border
Observer
Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks
Daily Mail
Our first comic philosopher
Eddie Izzard Milligan is the Great God to all of us
John Cleese
Observer
Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks
Daily Mail
Our first comic philosopher
Eddie Izzard Milligan is the Great God to all of us
John Cleese