The Stray Sod Country by Patrick Mccabe

The Stray Sod Country by Patrick Mccabe

It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog, is launched into space, Golly Murray, the Cullymore barber's wife, finds herself oddly obsessing about the canine cosmonaut. Meanwhile, Fonsey Teddy O'Neill is returning, like the prodigal son, from overseas, with Brylcreem in his hair and a Cuban-heeled swagger to his step, having experienced his coming-of-age in Skegness, England. Father Augustus Hand is working on a bold new theatrical production for Easter, which he, for one, knows will put Cullymore on the map. And, as the Manchester United football team prepares to take off from Munich airport, James A. Reilly sits in his hovel by the lake outside town, with his pet fox and his father's gun, feeling the weight of an insidious and inscrutable presence pressing down upon him.

As these imperiled characters wrestle with their identities, mysteriously powerful narrator plucks, gently, at the strings of their fates, and watches the twitching response. This novel is a devil's-eye view of a lost era, a sojourn to the dark side of our past, one we may not have come back from. With echoes of Peyton Place and Fellini's Amarcord, and with a sinister narrator at its heart, this is at once a story of a small town--with its secrets, fears, friendships, and betrayals--and a sweeping, theatrical extravagance from one of the finest writers of his generation.

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ISBN 13	9781608192748
ISBN 10	1608192741
Title	The Stray Sod Country
Author	Patrick Mccabe
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury USA
Year published	2010-09-28
Number of pages	352
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