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Poguemahone
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- Book Synopsis
- Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate. From Dan's anarchic account, we gradually piece together the story of the Fogarty family. How the parents are exiled from a small Irish village and end up living the hard immigrant life in England. How Dots, the mother, becomes a call girl in 1950s Soho. How a young Una finds herself living in a hippie squat haunted by vindictive ghosts in Kilburn in the early 1970s.And, finally, how all that survives now of those sex-and-drug-soaked times are Una's unspooling memories and Dan himself, whose role in the story becomes stranger and more sinister.Poguemahone is a wild, shape-shifting epic from one of modern Ireland's greatest writers. It is a wild free-verse monologue steeped in music and folklore, crammed with characters, both real and imagined, on a scale Patrick McCabe has never attempted before.
- About The Author
- Born in Clones, Co Monaghan, Ireland in 1955. Patrick worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time author. He has written extensively for a variety of media, most notably stage and screen, with works which include radio dramatisations of many of his novels and adaptations for stage and screen. He is currently preparing a stage version of his Unbound novel, Poguemahone, with the musician Lisa O'Neill and award-winning Druid Company actor Aaron Monaghan.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781800182387
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Unbound, (13 April 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 624
- Weight
- 532 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 197 x 59 mm
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