This is the ritual
Doyle, Rob2016
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Jean-Paul Finnegan stands on board the Ulysses ferry heading home to Ireland. 'Not one person in Ireland has even read Joyce!' he rants, terrifying the passengers around him. A young man in a dark depression roams the vast, formless landscape of a Dublin industrial park where he meets a strange vagrant in the grip of a dangerous ideology. A woman fleeing the break-up of a long-term relationship finds herself taking part in an unusual sleep experiment. A man obsessed with Nietzsche clings desperately to his girlfriend's red shoes. Among these masterful stories lurk characters that straddle the boundary between fiction and non-fiction. Exploring notions of masculinity, failed idealism, sex and the writing life - and moving from Paris to Barcelona, Dublin and London - these inventive, funny, often explicit stories introduce a powerful and provocative new literary voice.
Main title:
This is the ritual / Rob Doyle.
Author:
Doyle, Rob, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2016.London : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Collation:
208 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781408865354 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Local class:
F
Language:
English
BRN:
1826840