Poguemahone
$26.04
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2027
Summary
‘If you’re looking for this century’s Ulysses, look no further … a stunningly lyrical novel’ - Observer
A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny novel in verse by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto.
Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic free-verse monologue tells their family story. Exile from Ireland and immigrant life in England. Their mother’s trials as a call…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781037404382 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1037404386 |
| Author: | Patrick McCabe |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
If you’re looking for this century’s Ulysses, look no further … a stunningly lyrical novel * Observer *
Poguemahone is a blistering, brilliant ballad … The characters are electric, the narrative fuelled with a brilliant frenetic energy — I loved this great song. McCabe is truly original * Elaine Feeney *
McCabe may be right when he claims that Poguemahone is his best book: it is startlingly original, moving, funny, frightening and beautiful – Ian Duhig * The Guardian *
A bleakly comic, wildly original 600-page epic about loss, exile and mental illness … Poguemahone is, in content and execution, frequently astonishing … in its haunting strangeness and blazing originality, it deserves far more than a cult following * Times Literary Supplement *
Poguemahone, living up to its author’s reputation, is daring, studded with brilliance * The New York Times Book Review *
Modernist and eager to push the boundaries of his own art and the art form of the novel, here is a novelist and novel to celebrate in all their ribald, audacious, outrageous, and compelling brilliance * Irish Sunday Independent *
A marvel; McCabe’s inventive use of enjambment and stanza layout push the boundaries of what is possible in narrative storytelling … A moving saga of youth, age, and memory—by turns achingly poetic, knowingly philosophical, and bitterly funny * Kirkus *
Lively and ambitious in form, this admirably extends the range of McCabe’s career-long examination of familial and childhood trauma * Publishers Weekly *
Patrick McCabe
Patrick McCabe was born in 1955 in Clones, County Monaghan.
He is the author of:
- The Butcher Boy, which won the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction
- The Dead School
- Breakfast on Pluto
- Winterwood, which was named the 2007 Hughes & Hughes/Irish Independent Irish Novel of the Year
The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into feature films by Neil Jordan.
He now lives in Clones.
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