Lipstick on the Host by Aidan Carl Mathews
All of Aiden Mathews's stories take their frail and passionately wrong-headed narrators over the edge into the obscene and the sacrilegous. They circle dangerously around the secret places where incest, religion and poetry meet. The language is beautiful, witty and charming despite its many tricks and allusions; 'I can't think of any other writer who can give his characters such a degree of emotional and spiritual complexity' Independent on Sunday.
Aidan Mathews was born in 1956 in Dublin. He has published three works of fiction: Adventures in a Bathyscope (1988), which was shortlisted for the first GPA Book Award, Muesli at Midnight (1990) and Lipstick on the Host (1992), which won a Cavour Prize for Foreign Fiction. He has also published three books of poetry, the most recent of which is According to the Small Hours (Jonathan Cape, 1998). Aiden Mathews lives with his wife and two daughters in Dublin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780749397067 |
| ISBN 10 | 0749397063 |
| Title | Lipstick on the Host |
| Author | Aidan Carl Mathews |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1993-03-11 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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