The Valparaiso Voyage

Informationen zum Autor Dermot Bolger is a distinguished novelist and playwright. His novels include ‘The Journey Home’, ‘The Woman’s Daughter’, ‘Emily’s Shoes’, and, most recently, ‘A Second Life’. He lives and works in Dublin. Here he finds a new Ireland, wracked with corruption, everyone -- politicians, bankers, businessmen, councillors -- caught up in it, including his own father. Tormented by memories and old resentments, Brogan nevertheless feels he must solve the riddle of his father's death. And he finds himself not in the least surprised to discover that the rot set in many years ago, back in the Navan of his childhood. A cracking, fast-paced literary thriller, contemporary and topical. 'No Irish novelist since McGahern has been so obsessed with the poetics of love, death and sex. No Irish novelist has so brilliantly captured the suburban underbelly of the city, the crazy unofficial lives.' Colm Toibin 'Joyce, O'Flaherty, Brian Moore, a fistful of O'Briens, this is a succulent Who's Who of Irish writing, and Dermot Bolger is of the same ilk. An exceptional literary gift.' Independent 'Bolger's writing is so strong, so exact, so much the right colour for each moment. Bare and passionate.' Financial Times

Product details

• Authors: Dermot Bolger
• Publisher: Flamingo
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2002
• EAN: 9780006552376
• ISBN: 978-0-00-655237-6
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Portugal, Adventure, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Modern & contemporary fiction, Ireland, Adventure fiction