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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Eureka Street: A Novel of Ireland Like No Otherby Robert M Wilson
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In a city blasted by years of force and fury, but momentarily stilled by a cease-fire, two unlikely friends search for that most human of needs: love. But of course, a night of lust will do. Jake Jackson and Chuckie Lurgan--one Catholic, one Protestant--navigate their sectarian city and their nonsectarian friendship with wit and style. Chuckie, an unemployed dreamer, stumbles into bliss with a beautiful American who lives in Belfast. Jake, a repo man with the soul of a poet, can only manage a hilarious war of insults with a spitfire Republican whose Irish name, properly pronounced, sounds like someone choking. Brilliant, exuberant, and bitingly funny, Eureka Street introduces us to one of the finest young writers to emerge from Ireland in years. Review:"BELFAST COMES TO LIFE HERE. . . . EUREKA STREET IS FUNNY AND BRUTAL AND A LOT MORE. . . . STYLISH, FUNNY, BLACK AND MEMORABLE . . . A VIOLENT, ANGRY, BUSY, LIVING BOOK." --The Irish Times "A surprisingly tender, complex take on life and love in Belfast at the mean-street level, where horrors mysteriously transmogrify into things of hope and beauty. . . . Wilson's evident love for the long-suffering city itself is an inspired thread that binds the story gloriously together." --Kirkus Reviews About the AuthorRobert McLiam Wilson is a native of Belfast whose work has won the Rooney Prize and the Irish Book Award, and has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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