Ithaca

b>Shortlisted for The Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards 2017/b>br>b>/b>br>b>Longlisted for the 2017 Desmond Elliott Prize/b>br>b>/b>br>b>'Alan McMonagle possesses a style that is all his own and I found his first novel compelling from start to finish. Read it.' Patrick McCabe, author of The Butcher Boy/b>br>b>/b>br>Ithaca, the ferociously funny and unbelievably poignant debut novel from Alan McMonagle, combines a fiercely emotional story with crackling prose.Summer 2009, and eleven-year-old Jason Lowry is preoccupied with thoughts of the Da he has never known. In the meantime, his vodka-swilling, swings-from-the-hip Ma is busy entertaining her latest boyfriend and indulging her fondness for joyriding.Jason escapes to the Swamp: a mysteriously rising pool of fetid water on the outskirts of the town. There, he meets the girl, a being as lost as himself. Together, they conjure exotic adventures - from ancient Egypt to the search for Ithaca, home of Odysseus. But what begin as innocent flights of fancy soon become forays into hazardous territory; the girl is a dangerous (and very committed) partner in crime.

Product details

• Authors: Alan McMonagle, McMonagle Alan
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781509829873
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-2987-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Ireland, Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary