Emerald Germs Of Ireland

图书信息

作者	McCabe, Patrick
出版社	HarperCollins e-books
ISBN	9780062031549
出版时间	2010-11-23
字数	47.9万
分类	HarperCollins e-books,进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

"There is something special about the relationship we all have with our mothers . . . "Meet Pat McNab, forty-five years old, and about to embark on a homicidal rampage sparked by matricide. Or is he?Pat spent endless hours chain-smoking and propping up the counter of Sullivan's Select Bar (not that Mrs. McNab knew anything about it—she and Timmy the barman didn't get along at all) or sitting on his mother's knee singing away together like some ridiculous two-headed human jukebox. But that was all before the story really began—Emerald Germs of Ireland is in essence Pat McNab's post-matricide year.Pat, who now spends many of his waking hours sitting by the window in his old dark house, watching videos and nibbling abstractedly on pieces of toast, reflects on those long-gone days with Mommy, while fending off the persistent interferences of his small-town neighbors: the puritanical Mrs. Tubridy; that irascible seller of turf, the Turf Man; Sgt. "Kojak" Foley, and other unwanted snoops who could soon come to regret their inquisitive, nose-poking ways.This is Patrick McCabe at his fiendish best. Dark, emotionally powerful, and surreal, Emerald Germs of Ireland is also his funniest work to date, masterfully displaying the anarchic twists and turns that are the hallmarks of his comic genius.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Introduction

Whiskey on a Sunday

The Turfman from Ardee

Old flames

South of the Border

Courting in the kitchen

Three Lovely Lassies in Bannion

The Little Drummer Boy

Fly Me to the Moonz

Waka Waka

Love story

The garden Where the Praties grow

Island of Dreams

For What It’s Worth Stop! Hey what’s that (Sound?)

Twenty-one Years

About the Author

PRAISE FOR: Patrick McCabe and Emerald Germs of Ireland

OTHER BOOKS BY PATRICK McCABE

Copyright

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