Hostages by Oisn Fagan
A bomb is born, lives and dies in a demented rural school; Ireland experiences a rain of corpses falling from the sky; a strange tribal matriarchy on the banks of the River Boyne is threatened with extermination. In these five long stories the world breaks down in an endless cycle of hunger, desperation, violence and domination. This is a truly radical vision of a dysfunctional yet stubbornly hopeful world, quite unlike any other in contemporary fiction.
The best new young writer in IrelandDarkly funny, dazzlingly smart and ablaze with love and ferocity -- Colin Barrett
Fagan sounds an original and startling note... This is a collection that is imaginative, well crafted, and, above all, gripping. You close this book with a dry mouth and clammy palms – and plenty to think about, in terms of the world as it is, not just as it might be' * The Lady *
The end of the world is seemingly always just around the corner. But Hostages is funny and cheerful for all that... Fagan renders his DayGlo-Bruegelish nightmares in a careless, cliché-free Anglo-Irish [with] a generous dose of black wit' * Spectator *
Fagan sounds an original and startling note... This is a collection that is imaginative, well crafted, and, above all, gripping. You close this book with a dry mouth and clammy palms – and plenty to think about, in terms of the world as it is, not just as it might be' * The Lady *
The end of the world is seemingly always just around the corner. But Hostages is funny and cheerful for all that... Fagan renders his DayGlo-Bruegelish nightmares in a careless, cliché-free Anglo-Irish [with] a generous dose of black wit' * Spectator *
Oisín Fagan has had short fiction published in The Stinging Fly, New Planet Cabaret and the anthology Young Irelanders, with work featured in the Irish Museum of Modern Art. In 2016, he won the inaugural Penny Dreadful Novella Prize for The Hierophants. Hostages, his first collection, was also published in 2016 by New Island. He is represented by C+W.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781788546683 |
| ISBN 10 | 1788546687 |
| Title | Hostages |
| Author | Oisín Fagan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2018-08-09 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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