A satirical novel about the pretensions, hypocrisies and paranoia of the literary world and its hangers-on - novelists, poets, academics, passionate women and barking-mad eccentrics - and, for good measure, Northern Irish cultural conditioning, marital breakdown and the maelstrom that passes for family life. Filtered through the bemused, wisecracking observations of the young narrator, the plot gallops through a twenty-year journey from the North to Dublin to London, encountering on the way Kyle Magee 'the Zorba of the North' - novelist, painter, jazzman, drinker, lover of women and celebrant of life - and the lovers, relatives, disciples and poseurs that swirl in the vortex of his restless energy.
- ISBN13 9780856405761
- Publish Date 21 June 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 31 January 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Colourpoint Creative Ltd
- Imprint Blackstaff Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English