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Killoyle: An Irish Farce

Killoyle: An Irish Farce

Boylan, Roger
Roger, Boylan
Boylan

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Series: American Literature

General Fiction

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ISBN10: 1564781453
ISBN13: 9781564781451
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: May 1 1997
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Proving that the spirits of James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, and Samuel Beckett still flow in the veins of at least one Irish writer, Roger Boylan has composed a novel filled with hilarity and doom about the inhabitants of the Irish town of Killoyle: Milo Rogers, a headwaiter and would-be poet with a bit of a drinking problem and a bit of a sexual one; Kathy Hickman, a writer for the woman's fashion magazine?Glam, as well as a former pin-up girl; Wolfetone Grey, who only reads books by or about God, and who also makes anonymous phone calls throughout the town in order to make people believe, among other things, that they have just won the lottery; and a host of other peculiar folks, all suffering from and tortured by problems with God, sex, the drink, and of course Ireland.

Accompanying all of this is a nameless figure who bursts on the scene in the form of acerbic, opinionated, hilarious footnotes that rudely comment upon the characters and numerous other subjects. Killoyle wildly celebrates the great Irish tradition of laughter amid despair and tears.

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