An Evening of Long Goodbyes

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Beschreibung:

The brilliant first novel by the author of The Bee StingAcclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured debuts of recent years An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. Featuring drinking greyhound racing vanishing furniture more drinking old movies assorted Dublin lowlife eviction and the perils of community theatre Paul Murray's first novel is a tour de force of comedic writing wrapped in an honest-to-goodness tale of a man - and a family - living in denial.'Hilarious rich and satisfying' The Times Literary Supplement'Comedy of the highest calibre and a good fast-paced yarn. An excellent read' Sunday Tribune'Arguably the funniest debut in years An Evening of Long Goodbyes ranks with Zadie Smith's White Teeth as a stunning document of an English-speaking metropolis in flux' LA Times

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Über die Urheberinnen:

Paul Murray was born in Dublin in 1975 and is the author of An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Skippy Dies, The Mark and the Void and The Bee Sting. An Evening of Long Goodbyes was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and nominated for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize. The Mark and the Void won the Everyman Wodehouse Prize. The Bee Sting won the Nero Book of the Year Award and the An Post Irish Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Writers' Prize for Fiction and the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Paul Murray lives in Dublin.

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Produktdetails:

• Autor:in: Paul Murray
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.04.2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• Seitenumfang: 480 Seiten
• ISBN: 9780241955895