Ripley Bogle by Robert Mcliam Wilson

Ripley Bogle by Robert Mcliam Wilson

'I'm Ripley Bogle. It's with purpose, fear and gratitude that I stalk the streets of the city.' As the scene shifts from the streets of London, to Oxford and Belfast, the tramp, Ripley Bogle, narrates his gripping and alarming story in which it becomes increasingly difficult to tell what is true and what is fiction.

An astonishing performance, fluent, profound, angryIt made me laugh; it made me think; it made me envious * Irish Times *
Probably one of the best Irish novels to have appared in the last decade. It goes straight for the jugular * The Times *
The eponymous antihero of this splendid anti-coming-of-age novel is a classic Irish rogue: handsome, charming, astute, articulate, arrogant, irresponsible, passionate - above all, a chap who can make you laugh three times per page... Underneath all the wordplay, [Wilson] reveals with true eloquence the horrors of growing up during the Troubles * Publishers Weekly *

Robert McLiam Wilson was born in Belfast in 1964. Ripley Bogle, his debut, won the Rooney Prize, the Hughes Prize, a Betty Trask Award and the Irish Book Awards. He has written two other novels - Manfred's Pain and Eureka Street - and is also the author of a non-fiction book, The Dispossessed. In 2003, he was named by Granta magazine as one of 20 Best of Young British Novelists.

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ISBN 13	9780749394653
ISBN 10	074939465X
Title	Ripley Bogle
Author	Robert Mcliam Wilson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	1997-06-16
Number of pages	336
Prizes	Winner of Betty Trask Awards 1990, Winner of Betty Trask Award 1990
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