Sophisticated Boom Boom

Informationen zum Autor John Kelly was born in 1965 in County Fermanagh. He works as a writer and broadcaster. He is the author of The Little Hammer , published by Cape in 2000. Married with one daughter, he lives in Dublin. Klappentext A tender, hilarious coming-of-age novel by Ireland's top music-journalist. It is a love-letter to the period and the place -- Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, in the seventies -- and to music with the power to liberate and transform. Zusammenfassung When, miraculously, Thin Lizzy come to town, Declan goes in to the concert in his brown cardigan and emerges wearing a black leather jacket... Sophisticated Boom Boom is a tender, hilarious account of the agonies and absurdities of growing up in a backwater of pebbledash and Space Invaders.

Product details

• Authors: John Kelly
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2004
• EAN: 9780099285960
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928596-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Irische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Rock and Roll, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Biographical, Rock & Pop music, Fermanagh, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Northern Ireland, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, Biographical fiction, FICTION / World Literature / Ireland / 21st Century, music; thin lizzy; adolescence; comic writing