City of Bohane
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Apr '12
Should be back in stock very soon
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award - this is a cool, comic, violent and lyrical debut novel from one of Ireland's most talented new writers.
**Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award**
‘A electrifying masterpiece’ Joseph O’Connor
The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines.
**Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award**
‘A electrifying masterpiece’ Joseph O’Connor
The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are still some posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin' that the city really lives.
For years, Bohane has been in the cool grip of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But there's trouble in the air. But now they say his old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious; and there's trouble in the air...
**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award
Winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
The most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years * Irvine Welsh *
Hilarious and unpredictable - and always brilliant * Roddy Doyle *
Astonishing.This marks him out as a writer of great promise * Guardian *
Beautiful, arresting, precise...a compelling creation * Irish Times *
An electrifying masterpiece * Joseph O'Connor *
City of Bohane is a book fizzing with energy, juiced up on the possibilities of language and replete with a plot * Glasgow Herald *
Exuberant, spine-tinglingly atmospheric... This hyper-real world stuffed with overblown violence and all manner of cartoon-like grotesques is certainly a highly entertaining place to lose yourself in * Metro *
Exhilarating ...this novel confirms the arrival of a fresh and original voice in Irish literature... Hugely entertaining and original * Irish Sunday Times *
The prose is sizzling, its molecules rocked by the force of collision...outrageously talented author...The power of the writing - of the writer's imagination - is the siren call that hooks you...It stuns you with its daring...but it works * Scotsman *
Addictive first novel...this slangy, plosive-packed prose is what makes the book a success...an expert manipulation of syntax keeps things zingy...it is a plus point that the dystopia bears no allegorical weight, thriving purely as an imaginary realm to be taken at face value * Sunday Times *
- Winner of I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2013 (Ireland)
ISBN: 9780099549154
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 17mm
Weight: 204g
288 pages