Poguemahone Paperback / softback
by Patrick McCabe
Paperback / softback
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Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate.
From Dan’s anarchic account, we gradually piece together the story of the Fogarty family.
How the parents are exiled from a small Irish village and end up living the hard immigrant life in England.
How Dots, the mother, becomes a call girl in 1950s Soho.
How a young Una finds herself living in a hippie squat haunted by vindictive ghosts in Kilburn in the early 1970s. And, finally, how all that survives now of those sex-and-drug-soaked times are Una’s unspooling memories and Dan himself, whose role in the story becomes stranger and more sinister. Poguemahone is a wild, shape-shifting epic from one of modern Ireland's greatest writers.
It is a wild free-verse monologue steeped in music and folklore, crammed with characters, both real and imagined, on a scale Patrick McCabe has never attempted before.
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:624 pages
- Publisher:Unbound
- Publication Date:27/04/2023
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- ISBN:9781800182387
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:624 pages
- Publisher:Unbound
- Publication Date:27/04/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781800182387