Proving that the spirits of James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, and Samuel Beckett still flow in the veins of at least one Irish writer, Roger Boylan has composed a novel filled with hilarity and doom about the inhabitants of the Irish town of Killoyle: Milo Rogers, a headwaiter and would-be poet with a bit of a drinking problem and a bit of a sexual one; Kathy Hickman, a writer for the woman's fashion magazine Glam, as well as a former pin-up girl; Wolfetone Grey, who reads books only by or about God, and who also makes anonymous phone calls through-out the town in order to make people believe, among other things, that they have just won the lottery; and a host of other peculiar folks, all suffering from and tortured by problems with God, sex, the drink, and of course Ireland. Accompanying all of this is a nameless figure who bursts on the scene in the form of acerbic, opinionated, hilarious footnotes that rudely comment upon the characters and numerous other subjects.
| ISBN: | 9781564781451 |
| Publication date: | 12th June 1997 |
| Author: | Roger Boylan, Boylan Roger, Boylan |
| Publisher: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Series: | American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |