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Mondo Desperado

Author : Patrick McCabe
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062029266
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Mondo Desperado written by Patrick McCabe and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick McCabe has long been recognized as a writer of rare talent and unique voice, whose vision of the world is so distinctive that "McCabesque" has become an adjective with multiple meanings, including "exquisitely, beautifully, mad in the head!" He was a Booker Prize finalist for The Butcher Boy, which won the Irish Times Aer Lingus/Irish Literature Prize for Fiction and was made into a motion picture directed by Neil Jordan and cowritten by McCabe and Jordan. He was again a Booker Prize finalist for Breakfast on Pluto, which won the Spirit of Life Arts/Sunday Independent Irish Literature Award and was a number one international bestseller. McCabe has been described as "the lodestone of new Irish fiction" (Wall Street Journal), "a dark. genius of incongruity and the grotesque" (Sunday Observer) and "one of Ireland's finest living writers" (New York Times Book Review). The Minneapolis Star-Tribune commented on McCabe's "remarkable...ability to induce compassion for the unlikeliest people," and in Mondo Desperado: A Serial Novel, that ability and the full range of his "grotesque genius" (Marie Claire) combine to produce a brilliant, macabre' dementedly funny and surreally imagined fiction of intertwined narratives set in a small Irish town. McCabe himself has described Mondo Desperado as being "like Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio -- on drugs." In his mondo tales of the insular town of Barntrosna, McCabe assembles a distinctly Irish crew of odd and unusual inhabitants who live on and regularly cross, often unconsciously, the border between fantasy and reality. In "Hot Nights at the Go-Go Lounge," Larry Bunyan is certain his demure wife is secretly out at night with deadbeat swingers, shooting drugs and having wild sex, while in "I Ordained the Devil," the Bishop of Barntrosna confesses that his ordination of Father Packie Cooley was really an ordination of His Satanic Majesty. Another Barntrosna resident, Dr. John Joe Parkes, discovers "The Valley of the Flying Jennets," the secret place in the mountains created by his Dr. Frankenstein -- type medical ancestor where his horrible, mutated genetic failures live. In the concluding "Forbidden Love of Noreen Tiernan," Noreen escapes Barntrosna, goes to London for nursing school, finds a lesbian lover, and teams up with her to rob and terrorize London until her mother, boyfriend and parish priest bring Noreen back home. With sly wit, characteristic, brilliant blending of sadness and humor and macabre genius, Mondo Desperado is a wonderfully imagined work of fiction -- McCabe's most dazzling yet -- rom a truly original literary talent.

Mondo Desperado

Author : Patrick McCabe
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9780330391627
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Mondo Desperado written by Patrick McCabe and published by Picador. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Patrick McCabe’s Ireland

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004389008
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Patrick McCabe’s Ireland written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick McCabe’s Ireland offers literary scholars’ exploration of the significant fiction produced by this author from the early 1990s and 2000s.

Mondo Desperado

Author : Pat McCabe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780330372176
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Mondo Desperado written by Pat McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You wouldn't expect to find a mature woman of 28 mixed up with a bunch of swingers in a small town like Barntrosna. But that's exactly what happened according to Walter Bunyan, and he should know, she was his wife.

Yoga Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yoga Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 30 years, Yoga Journal has been helping readers achieve the balance and well-being they seek in their everyday lives. With every issue,Yoga Journal strives to inform and empower readers to make lifestyle choices that are healthy for their bodies and minds. We are dedicated to providing in-depth, thoughtful editorial on topics such as yoga, food, nutrition, fitness, wellness, travel, and fashion and beauty.

Yoga Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Writing Short Stories

Author : Ailsa Cox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317354826
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Writing Short Stories written by Ailsa Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Writing Short Stories has been updated throughout to include new and revised exercises, up-to-date coverage of emerging technologies and a new glossary of key terms and techniques. Ailsa Cox, a published short-story writer, guides the reader through the key aspects of the craft, provides a variety of case studies and examples of how others have approached the genre and sets a series of engaging exercises to help hone your skills. This inspiring book is the ideal guide for those new to the genre or for anyone wanting to improve their technique.

Sweet and Savage

Author : Mark Goodall
Publisher : Headpress
ISBN 13 : 1909394513
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Sweet and Savage written by Mark Goodall and published by Headpress. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Mondo Cane films were an important key to what was going on in the media landscape of the 1960s, especially post the JFK assassination. Nothing was true, and nothing was untrue...” J G Ballard Being the first ever English-language title devoted exclusively to the controversial and influential mondo documentary film cycle, this revised edition of Sweet and Savage remains the only serious study of mondo as a global film phenomenon, and includes a detailed examination of the key films of this cult genre. Sweet and Savage identifies the principle stylistic aspects of the mondo genre through a fascinating ‘non-linear’ approach that echoes the collage shock effects of the original films. In so doing it features exclusive interviews and many unique material contributions. It is lavishly illustrated with rare photographs, stills, posters, and record sleeves. Foreword by Jeremy Dyson.

We Won’t Make It Out Alive

Author : Kate Walls
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527551822
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book We Won’t Make It Out Alive written by Kate Walls and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full length study of Patrick McCabe’s work, We Won’t Make It Out Alive, examines the mental instability and carefully constructed childhoods that McCabe has crafted for his various characters—the one eyed quasi Al Pacino, the sequin studded transvestite, the bachelor farmer who routinely exhumes his dead mother for a chat. Beneath the grotesque and often very funny narratives of Irish border town life lurks startlingly similar pasts for these characters, spanning all of McCabe’s catalogue. As children, they were subject to the cruelty of the orphanage/workhouse or deadbeat parents numbed by alcohol. Many were victims of sexual abuse by priests and witnesses to the senseless violence brought on by political divides. The outrageous personalities and later actions of these characters often overshadow these very real beginnings, and in this book, Kate Walls discusses the impact of these social problems and how McCabe’s unfortunate (and usually well-meaning) narrators are driven crazy as a result. We Won’t Make It Out Alive also discusses how these characters fare against the Troubles of the 1970s and, for the novels set in more contemporary times, the changing Ireland of the Celtic Tiger. Being on the fringes of society themselves, McCabe’s characters have a unique vantage point from which to comment on these defining moments of social upheaval.

Joycean Legacies

Author : Martha C. Carpentier
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137503629
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Joycean Legacies written by Martha C. Carpentier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twelve essays analyze the complex pleasures and problems of engaging with James Joyce for subsequent writers, discussing Joyce's textual, stylistic, formal, generic, and biographical influence on an intriguing selection of Irish, British, American, and postcolonial writers from the 1940s to the twenty-first century.

2000s, The: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Nick Bentley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441175490
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book 2000s, The: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction written by Nick Bentley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction? The means of publishing, buying and reading fiction changed dramatically between 2000 and 2010. This volume explores how the socio-political and economic turns of the decade, bookended by the beginning of a millennium and an economic crisis, transformed the act of writing and reading. Through consideration of, among other things, the treatment of neuroscience, violence, the historical and youth subcultures in recent fiction, the essays in this collection explore the complex and still powerful relation between the novel and the world in which it is written, published and read. This major literary assessment of the fiction of the 2000s covers the work of newer voices such as Monica Ali, Mark Haddon, Tom McCarthy, David Peace and Zadie Smith as well as those more established, such as Salman Rushdie, Hilary Mantel and Ian McEwan making it an essential contribution to reading, defining and understanding the decade.

The Contemporary Irish Novel

Author : Linden Peach
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350317608
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Irish Novel written by Linden Peach and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential guide offers innovative critical readings of key contemporary novels from Ireland and Northern Ireland. Linden Peach discusses texts that are representative of the richness of Irish writing during the 1980s and 1990s, and reads works by established authors alongside those by the new generation of writers. The novels examined include works by John Banville, Jennifer Johnston, Roddy Doyle, Emma Donoghue, Seamus Deane, William Trevor, Dermot Bolger, Joseph O'Connor, Patrick McCabe, Mary Morrissy, Glenn Patterson and Robert McLiam Wilson. The Contemporary Irish Novel addresses themes such as ghosts and haunting, mimicry, obedience and subversion, the relocation and reinscription of identity, the mother figure, parent-child relations, madness, masculinity, self-harm, sexuality, domestic violence, fetishism and postmodernity. Drawing on a range of critical approaches including postcolonial, gender and psychoanalytic theory, Peach explores and celebrates the diversity of Irish fiction and suggests that the boundary between literature and theory is as permeable as that between Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Teaching the Short Story

Author : A. Cox
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023031659X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Teaching the Short Story written by A. Cox and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short story is moving from relative neglect to a central position in the curriculum; as a teaching tool, it offers students a route into many complex areas, including critical theory, gender studies, postcolonialism and genre. This book offers a practical guide to the short story in the classroom, covering all these fields and more.

Reading the Novel in English 1950 - 2000

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405148802
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Novel in English 1950 - 2000 written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century. An engaging introduction to the English-language novel from 1950-2000 (exclusive of the US). Provides students both with strategies for interpretation and with fresh readings of selected seminal texts. Maps out the most important contexts and concepts for understanding this fiction. Features readings of ten influential English-language novels including Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.

A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

Author : Christopher Riches
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019251850X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Writers and their Works written by Christopher Riches and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.

A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945 - 2000

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405156163
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945 - 2000 written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene’s ‘Heart of the Matter’, Jean Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ and Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed

Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present

Author : George Stade
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438116896
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present written by George Stade and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information on major and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and includes articles on key schools of literature, and genres.