Synopses & Reviews
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"A rewarding experience which sees the master of the Irish gothic genre return to his best form in years."--JP O'Malley, The Observer
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PRAISE FOR PATRICK MCCABE:
"Brilliant, unique. Patrick McCabe pushes your head through the book and you come out the other end gasping, admiring, and knowing that reading fiction will never be the same again."--Roddy Doyle
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PRAISE FOR Hello Mr. Bones / Goodbye Mr. Rat:
â??Stark, fierce, and wonderful... McCabe is a master of both the demented narrative and demented narrator. Beneath the ghosts and ghoulies, however, lies a compassionate exploration of the aftermath of psychological damage."--Claire Kilroy, The Guardian
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"Stunning."--New York Times Book Review
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"Startlingly original."--Washington Post Book World
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"McCabe is especially good at conjuring up the menace of psychopaths who perpetrate acts of barbarism under the spurious guise of ideologies."--John Boland, The Independent
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"Both bits of Hello and Goodbye are exuberant and witty and Goodbye Mr Rat deserves to rekindle his former glories."--Paul Dunn, The Times
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"[McCabe] is expert at making the darkest deeds funny, forcing us to laugh at the worst things in the world. He writes like an Irish Lenny Bruce, riffing at warp speed, swerving from one time to another and one place to another and strewing the landscape with allusion . . . and somehow it all makes sense . . . The stories McCabe tells have a terrible beauty. "--The New York Times
About the Author
Patrick McCabe is the author of The Butcher Boy (winner of the Irish Times/Aer lingus Literature Prize and shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize) and Breakfast on Pluto (shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize), both of which were made into highly acclaimed films by director Neil Jordan. He also wrote Winterwood, winner of the 2006 Hughes and Hughes/Irish Independent Novel of the Year. He lives in Sligo, Ireland.