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.
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781788546683Number of pages: 320Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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The best new young writer in Ireland. Darkly funny,dazzlingly smart and ablaze with love and ferocityFagan 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 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'
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