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Description for Fat Lad
Paperback.
When Drew Linden's new job brings him back to his native Belfast, he is determined to remain distant from everything that once tied him there, including his friends and family. But as three of generation of family history unfold, it becomes clear that the past Drew has been running from is the very thing he needs to face. And that his sense of himself is forever rooted in the troubled city of his birth. A powerful novel that weaves together family history with the history of Belfast, from the birth of the city, through its industrial heyday, ... Read more
When Drew Linden's new job brings him back to his native Belfast, he is determined to remain distant from everything that once tied him there, including his friends and family. But as three of generation of family history unfold, it becomes clear that the past Drew has been running from is the very thing he needs to face. And that his sense of himself is forever rooted in the troubled city of his birth. A powerful novel that weaves together family history with the history of Belfast, from the birth of the city, through its industrial heyday, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Blackstaff Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856408113
SKU
V9780856408113
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Ref
99-10
About Glenn Patterson
Glenn Patterson is the author of eight previous novels, including Burning Your Own, Fat Lad, The International - `the best novel about the Troubles ever written' (Anne Enright) - and The Third Party. He is the co-writer of Good Vibrations (BBC Films/The Works), an award-winning movie based on the life of Belfast punk impresario Terri Hooley.
Reviews for Fat Lad
humane, wise, funny, absolutely contemporary
Guardian
unmistakably authentic
Observer
A triumph. Maybe the finest novel written out of Ulster in twenty-five years.
Scotland on Sunday
No other novelist has proved as capable of capturing the heart of modern Belfast.
Sunday Tribune
told with grace, with warmth, and ineffable lightness by a writer ... Read more
Guardian
unmistakably authentic
Observer
A triumph. Maybe the finest novel written out of Ulster in twenty-five years.
Scotland on Sunday
No other novelist has proved as capable of capturing the heart of modern Belfast.
Sunday Tribune
told with grace, with warmth, and ineffable lightness by a writer ... Read more