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Ripley Bogle
Robert McLiam Wilson
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Description for Ripley Bogle
paperback. Shifting from the streets of London to Oxford and Belfast, a tramp tells an alarming story. His observations merge with "flashback" reminiscences from his youth as it becomes increasingly difficult to tell fact from fiction. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242. Paperback, some slight shelfwear othwerwise in very good condition.
'I'm Ripley Bogle. I'm the prince of the pavements, I'm the Parkbench King and the cold winds of the outside permanently fleck my flesh. To come with me, you must brave the air and the wide, bare boredom. The vast outdoors is my house and hall. It's with purpose, fear and gratitude that I stalk the streets of the city.'
As the scene shifts from the streets of London, to Oxford and Belfast, the tramp, Ripley Bogle, narrates his gripping and alarming story in which it becomes increasingly difficult to tell what is true and what is fiction.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749394653
SKU
KRF2233604
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Robert McLiam Wilson
Robert McLiam Wilson was born in Belfast in 1964. Ripley Bogle, his debut, won the Rooney Prize, the Hughes Prize, a Betty Trask Award and the Irish Book Awards. He has written two other novels - Manfred's Pain and Eureka Street - and is also the author of a non-fiction book, The Dispossessed. In 2003, he was named by Granta ... Read more
Reviews for Ripley Bogle
An astonishing performance, fluent, profound, angry. It made me laugh; it made me think; it made me envious
Irish Times
Probably one of the best Irish novels to have appared in the last decade. It goes straight for the jugular
The Times
The eponymous antihero of this splendid anti-coming-of-age novel is a classic Irish rogue: handsome, ... Read more
Irish Times
Probably one of the best Irish novels to have appared in the last decade. It goes straight for the jugular
The Times
The eponymous antihero of this splendid anti-coming-of-age novel is a classic Irish rogue: handsome, ... Read more