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Ghosts and Lightning Trevor Byrne

Ghosts and Lightning By Trevor Byrne

Ghosts and Lightning by Trevor Byrne


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Summary

An outstanding debut from a young Irish talent

Ghosts and Lightning Summary

Ghosts and Lightning by Trevor Byrne

Happy or unhappy, all families are a mystery. None more than the Cullens. Having escaped their clutches and moved across the water, Denny is just beginning to make a life for himself when a call from his sister brings him back to Dublin, city of his birth. Back to square one. As if squabbling siblings and unhelpful childhood friends weren't trouble enough, a ghost starts making appearances in the family home and Denny's life starts to get a lot more complicated. Full of riotous laughter, wonderment and love found in the most unlikely places, Ghosts and Lightning is an exuberant tale of someone trying to do the right thing surrounded by the wrong choices. It is also a revealing chronicle of our times from an exceptional new Irish talent.

Ghosts and Lightning Reviews

Ghosts and Lightning is a powerful novel and Trevor Byrne is a very powerful writer. The narrator, Denny, and the others around him are great characters, often funny, sometimes frightening, always very human. I loved it. -- RODDY DOYLE
This is an amazing book, written with force and passion. And Denny is a very funny and slightly demented tour guide to twenty-first century Dublin. A gripping and dark ride to the mad side of town, Ghosts and Lightning marks Byrne as a writer to get hooked on. -- MATT HAIG
Ghosts and Lightning is engaging and funny. Trevor Byrne delivers an acute portrayal of loss in a story filled with warmth, humour and wonder. -- CATHERINE O'FLYNN, author of What Was Lost
Byrne's voice crackles with energy and dark humour in a richly-evoked novel of Dublin family life. * * Irish Independent * *
Byrne is depicting a similar kind of urban underclass to the one Roddy Doyle has written about, with the same humour and attention to detail...Also in common with Doyle, Byrne does it without being patronizing or pitying. * * Scottish Review of Books * *
Funny and entertaining, yet tinged with sadness and desperation . . . there is much to applaud in Byrne's powerful debut. His writing is concise and unfussy, yet not without literary flourishes . . . Judging by this poignant, compelling and often deeply comic tale of life on the margins of Irish society, Byrne seems certain to enjoy greater longevity than the Celtic tiger. * * Sunday Business Post * *
Lurching, wisecracking, poignant and drunken . . . engaging, exhuberant, hilarious . . . Fans of Roddy Doyle will be agreeably entertained, while the semantically minded may be inclined to marvel at the numerous variations on the word fuck. -- Catherine Taylor * * Guardian * *
Trevor Byrne's first novel looks like the Irish debut we have been waiting for, a novel which could fill out our incomplete literary map of Ireland and allow southwest Dublin to take its place alongside Toibin's Enniscorthy, McCabe's Monaghan or Doyle's Northside. -- Barry McRea * * Irish Times * *

About Trevor Byrne

Trevor Byrne was born in 1981 and brought up in Clondalkin in south Dublin. He attended Trinity College and Glamorgan University where he is currently a tutor of creative writing.

Additional information

GOR002122167
9781847673299
1847673295
Ghosts and Lightning by Trevor Byrne
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Canongate Books
20090604
288
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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