According to Luke
According to Luke
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Summary
At thirty, Luke Reid seems to have an enviable life. But in his thirty-first year, Luke feels a strange new emotion - shame - when his father is implicated in decades of political sleaze. Unlike his mother, older sister and teenage brother, who try to ignore the whole sordid business, Luke decides to tackle the cancer of corruption head-on.
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According to Luke by Gerard Stembridge
At thirty, Luke Reid seems to have an enviable life. He is a child of the leafy suburbs, attractive - in an understated way, tolerant and erudite, socially assured, professionally successful, romantically settled. In short, a textbook example of upper middle class contentment. But in his thirty-first year, Luke feels a strange new emotion - shame - when his father, Frank, a leading barrister, is implicated in decades of political sleaze. Unlike his mother, older sister and teenage brother, who try to ignore the whole sordid business, and unlike his younger sister, made helpless by the thought that her Daddy could do wrong, Luke decides to tackle the cancer of corruption head-on. He becomes a self-appointed campaigner for restorative justice, trying to make good the damage his father has done. His actions are unpredictable, shocking and life-altering - not just for himself, but for all those close to him. According to Luke is a scintillating novel that gets under the skin of contemporary Ireland, a darkly comic moral tale, sizzling with ironic implications, about the abuse of privilege and the folly of human nature.
Gerard Stembridge was born in Limerick, studied English and History at UCD and has lived in Dublin since. His films include Guiltrip and About Adam. He co-wrote the hit RTE 1 radio show Scrap Saturday with Dermot Morgan ('Fr Ted'), and has written eleven plays. This is his first novel.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781844881123 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844881121 |
| Title | According to Luke |
| Author | Gerard Stembridge |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-10-05 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |