Boulevard Wren And Other Stories

Author: Blindboy Boatclub

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  • : $50.00 AUD
  • : 9780717183340
  • : M.H. Gill & Co. U. C.
  • : Gateway Books
  • : November 2019
  • : 30.0
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  • : Blindboy Boatclub
  • : Hardback
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Barcode 9780717183340
9780717183340

Description

Boulevard Wren and Other Stories is the stunning follow-up to the bestselling Gospel According to Blindboy, and a warped mirror held up to the Irish psyche.

Provocative and unsettling, the stories rove through the centuries, from the barren fields of Famine-struck Meath to the chaotic landscape of the near future, where social media has colonised the deepest recesses of the human subconscious. This is a world populated by characters lost and at odds with the demands of contemporary life, for whom the line separating redemption and madness has grown impossibly fine.

Razor-sharp social satire, it is an era-defining work from one of Ireland's most anarchic satirists and a quietly devastating portrait of a society in disarray.

'Mad, wild, hysterical.' Kevin Barry, author of Night Boat to Tangier