{"product_id":"poguemahone-1","title":"Patrick McCabe: Poguemahone [2022] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e'If you're looking for this century's \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, look no further ... a stunningly lyrical novel' \u003cb\u003eAlex Preston, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eObserver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Pitched - deliriously - between high modernism and folk magic, between gorgeous free-verse and hilarious Irish vernacular, \u003ci\u003ePoguemahone\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning achievement ... profoundly affecting' \u003cb\u003eDavid Keenan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A blistering, brilliant ballad of mad tales from rural Ireland to London Town. The characters are electric, the narrative fuelled with a brilliant frenetic energy. McCabe is truly original' \u003cb\u003eElaine Feeney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate. From Dan's anarchic account, we gradually piece together the story of the Fogarty family. How the parents are exiled from a small Irish village and end up living the hard immigrant life in England. How Dots, the mother, becomes a call girl in 1950s Soho. How a young and overweight Una finds herself living in a hippie squat in Kilburn in the early 1970s. How the squat appears to be haunted by vindictive ghosts who eat away at the sanity of all who live there. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd, finally, how all that survives now of those sex-and-drug-soaked times are Una's unspooling memories as she sits outside in the Margate sunshine, and Dan himself, whose role in the story becomes stranger and more sinister. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoguemahone \u003c\/i\u003eis a huge, shape-shifting epic from one of modern Ireland's greatest writers. It is a wild, free-verse monologue, steeped in music and folklore, crammed with characters, both real and imagined, on a scale Patrick McCabe has never attempted before. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mccabe, Patrick","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47370851418451,"sku":"XV81800181113","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":49305054609747,"sku":"9781800181113","price":28.57,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/mccabe-patrick-patrick-mccabe-poguemahone-2022-hardback-58585492259155.jpg?v=1726822387","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/poguemahone-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}