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Lorcan Roche - The Companion - 9781843510888 - KST0035366
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The Companion

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Description for The Companion Paperback. Fine copy
Trevor, a film-school dropout from Dublin, signs on as companion to Ed, a rich, wheelchair-bound New Yorker. A bizarre, mutual-dependency pact is ignited and an odyssey into the mind of an off-kilter, rambunctious Irishman begins. The Companion tells a story of obsession and control in which the dynamics of love and patience are tested to breaking point and beyond. Upbeat, defiant, dark and morally ambiguous, it sifts through family secrets and lies, and discloses the survival codes of Manhattan. This Irish take on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest develops into one of those rare, perversely elegiac novels that lodge ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843510888
SKU
KST0035366
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Lorcan Roche
LORCAN ROCHE, born 1963, is an award-winning journalist and playwright, travel-writer and lecturer. He once lived in New York City, where he was companion to a young man with muscular dystrophy. He lives in Dublin

Reviews for The Companion
‘Lorcan Roche is a fresh and vivid voice in new Irish fiction. I love the energy of his writing and its passionate engagement with the world. He is a gifted and clever storyteller.’ – Joseph O’Connor ‘…brilliantly achieved…Roche handles his materials well, never losing control over his narrative, keeping his reader’s attention throughout.’ – Derek Hand, The Irish Times ‘ ... Read more

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