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Perpetual Comedown
Declan Toohey
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Description for Perpetual Comedown
Paperback.
As a doctoral student at Trinity College Dublin, Darren Walton is trying to decode an elaborate conspiracy he stumbled across as an undergraduate. To do so he must locate an alternate Ireland named Camland, the existence of which is proven when he discovers a literary journal whose contents mirror his own past. With proof of his wild theories, Darren is sure academic fame is imminent. But for this he is willing to sacrifice not just his sanity and physical safety, but also his relationships with the ones who love him most.
In breathless prose, Declan Toohey weaves a ... Read more
As a doctoral student at Trinity College Dublin, Darren Walton is trying to decode an elaborate conspiracy he stumbled across as an undergraduate. To do so he must locate an alternate Ireland named Camland, the existence of which is proven when he discovers a literary journal whose contents mirror his own past. With proof of his wild theories, Darren is sure academic fame is imminent. But for this he is willing to sacrifice not just his sanity and physical safety, but also his relationships with the ones who love him most.
In breathless prose, Declan Toohey weaves a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
New Island
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781848408487
SKU
9781848408487
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About Declan Toohey
Declan Toohey was born in Scotland and grew up in County Kildare. His fiction has been published in Soft Punk, Channel, and the anthology Queer Love, among other outlets. In 2021 he was a co-winner of the IWC Novel Fair, and in 2022 he won the Maeve Binchy Travel Award and received an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. More recently, ... Read more
Reviews for Perpetual Comedown
'A novel so unique, so zany it is unlike anything I have read before ... It is bold. It is bonkers. It is brilliantly clever. It is also blackly funny — the prose skips along with irreverent glee, laced with puns and put-downs and perfect observations ... Where the novel really shines, however, is in its — somewhat surprising — ... Read more