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1. The Stray Sod Country: A Novel by Patrick McCabe | |
Paperback: 352
Pages
(2010-09-28)
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Editorial Review Product Description It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog, is launched into space, Golly Murray, the Cullymore barber's wife, finds herself oddly obsessing about the canine cosmonaut. Meanwhile, Fonsey "Teddy" O'Neill is returning, like the prodigal son, from overseas, with Brylcreem in his hair and a Cuban-heeled swagger to his step, having experienced his coming-of-age in Skegness, England. Father Augustus Hand is working on a bold new theatrical production for Easter, which he, for one, knows will put Cullymore on the map. And, as the Manchester United football team prepares to take off from Munich airport, James A. Reilly sits in his hovel by the lake outside town, with his pet fox and his father's gun, feeling the weight of an insidious and inscrutable presence pressing down upon him. As these imperiled characters wrestle with their identities, mysteriously powerful narrator plucks, gently, at the strings of their fates, and watches the twitching response. This novel is a devil's-eye view of a lost era, a sojourn to the dark side of our past, one we may not have come back from. With echoes of Peyton Place and Fellini's Amarcord, and with a sinister narrator at its heart, this is at once a story of a small town—with its secrets, fears, friendships, and betrayals—and a sweeping, theatrical extravagance from one of the finest writers of his generation. |
2. The Holy City: A Novel by Patrick McCabe | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2008-12-23)
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Haunting
Looking Back at Life |
3. Winterwood: A Novel by Patrick McCabe | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(2008-01-22)
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A Fragmented Mind
Couldn't finish it
Should be marketed as a thriller.
Wanted To Like It
A Poorly Written Novel |
4. Call Me the Breeze: A Novel by Patrick Mccabe | |
Paperback: 352
Pages
(2004-11-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description With T. S. Eliot's words as his guide, Joey Tallon embarks on a journey toward enlightenment in the troubling psychedelic-gone-wrong atmosphere of the late 1970s. A man deranged by desire, and longing for belonging, Tallon searches for his"place of peace" -- a spiritual landscape located somewhere between his small town in Northern Ireland and Iowa ... and maybe between heaven and hell. Customer Reviews (7)
mccabe does it for me again.
Irish as All Get Out
Call this a snooze Three examples: what was his rival Johnston's "Cyclops" thriller all about? Jimmy alludes to its contents in a sentence but given his jealousy towards his plagiarising mentor, why not elaborate? The stint in Mountjoy takes a few pages--whole years go by, with little from his incarceration to influence the rest of the novel, except to mark time, I suppose, and speed up the chronology. I found it curious that the narrative voice went into 3rd person briefly around pg. 296, and I hoped that--late in the game--this portended a fresh angle, but the end dribbles out into a series of dissipated conclusions, none of them that surprising given the unrelenting dreariness of the story. Compared to noteworthy recent Irish fiction from the northern regions treating similar themes and situations--as disparate as John McGahern (By the Lake), Colin Bateman (Cycle of Violence and Divorcing Jack), Glenn Patterson (Burning Your Own and Number 5), Robert McLiam Wilson (Eureka Street and Ripley Bogle) and Niall Griffith (A Welsh version--in Sheepshagger), Mc Cabe's tale of inflatable dolls, IRA thugs, ennui, drugs, and autodidacts seems tired and exhausted.
nice to have another novel from mccabe, but...
An Irish Feast by the Inimitable Patrick McCabe! CALL ME THE BREEZE, aptly titled, traverses the fanciful, quasi-delusional life of one Joey Tallon from the 1970s to the present. Joey lives in Ireland, is surrounded by a throng of characters that could be either real or drawn from his imagination.His adventures run the gamut from drugs, to crime and subsequent incarceration, to poetry, to screenplay writing, to Don Quixotesque, Don Juan-likemeanderings with multiple Dulcineas, delusional inamorata - all the fantasies we have grown to appreciate form McCabe's mind - along with piquant and tender moments of actual introspection and intellectual diversions.Joey Tallon is a newly created figure that McCabe now places in the sanctum sanctorum of unforgettable literary 'heroes'.Yes, he is manic, contagiously enthusiastic about everything he encounters (or fantasizes), recklessly susceptible to heroes from Charles Manson to Hermann Hesse to Joni Mitchell, given to obsessive ambitions, yet he at all times is wholly lovable and believable to the reader.Think Stephen Daedalus, Holden Caulfield, etc. Gratefully there are many authors writing today with abundant talent: Patrick McCabe is toward the head of the line. He is not an easy read, but delving into this book will be an adventure you are unlikely to find elsewhere.For those new to his style perhaps reading THE BUTCHER BOY first will allow you to jump in to CALL ME THE BREEZE without the struggles that may face first time readers of his books.A significant novel and a true joy! ... Read more |
5. The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe | |
Paperback: 231
Pages
(1994-08-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Thus begins Patrick McCabe's shattering novel The Butcher Boy, a powerful and unrelenting journey into the heart of darkness. The bleak, eerie voice belongs to Francie Brady, the "pig boy," the only child of and alcoholic father and a mother driven mad by despair. Growing up in a soul-stifling Irish town, Francie is bright, love-starved, and unhinged, his speech filled with street talk, his heart filled with pain... his actions perfectly monstrous. Held up for scorn by Mrs. Nugent, a paragon of middle-class values, and dropped by his best friend, Joe, in favor of her mamby-pamby son, Francie finally has a target for his rage -- and a focus for his twisted, horrific plan. Dark, haunting, often screamingly funny, The Butcher Boy chronicles the pig boy's ominous loss of innocence and chilling descent into madness. No writer since James Joyce has had such marvelous control of rhythm and language... and no novel since The Silence Of The Lambs has stunned us with such a macabre, dangerous mind. This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical, portrait of the descentinto madness of a young killer in small-town Ireland."Imagine HuckFinn crossed with Charlie Starkweather," said The WashingtonPost. Short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award and England'sprestigious Booker Prize. Customer Reviews (66)
Sympathy for the Devil
It's a good book, but you need to let it simmer
Banana
I was so looking forward to this book.
Muck, pluck, mick, pigs |
6. Breakfast on Pluto: A Novel by Patrick Mccabe | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(1999-11-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Breakfast on Pluto, Patrick McCabe's lyrical and haunting new novel, became a #1 bestseller in Ireland, stayed on the bestseller list for months, and was nominated for the Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards. With wonderful delicacy and subtle insight and intimation, McCabe creates Mr. Patrick "Pussy" Braden, the enduringly and endearingly hopeful hero(ine) whose gutsy survival and yearning quest for love resonate in and drive the glimmering, agonizing narrative in which the troubles are a distant and immediate echo and refrain. Twenty years ago, her ladyship escaped her hometown of Tyreelin, Ireland, fleeing her foster mother Whiskers (prodigious Guinness-guzzler, human chimney) and her mad household, to begin a new life in London. There, in blousey tops and satin miniskirts, she plies her trade, often risking life and limb amongst the flotsam and jetsam that fill the bars of Piccadilly Circus. But suave businessmen and lonely old women are not the only dangers that threaten Pussy. It is the 1970's and fear haunts the streets of London and Belfast as the critical mass of history builds up, and Pussy is inevitably drawn into a maelstrom of violence and tragedy destined to blow his fragile soul asunder. Brilliant, startling, profound and soaring, Breakfast on Pluto combines light and dark, laughter and pain, with such sensitivity, directness and restraint that the dramatic impact reverberates in our minds and hearts long after the initial impression. Patrick "Pussy" Brady is recording her memoirs for the mysterious Dr.Terence, and it's quite some story. After randy Father Bernard gets carriedaway with his temporaryhousekeeper, a dead ringer for Mitzi Gaynor, the result is Patrick Braden,abandoned on a doorstep in a Rinso box and condemned to a foster home withthe alcoholic Hairy Braden. Escape comes in fantasies of Vic Damone and theoccasional glitzy frock, and eventually, inevitably, the rebaptised "Pussy"heads for life as a transvestite rent boy on Piccadilly's Meat Rack. Butthis is not just Pussy's story; as hitherto-muffled paramilitaryviolence blows up in her face, Pussy falls apart, providing a vivid andunsettling final comment on the human price paid in 1970s Ireland.--Alan Stewart Customer Reviews (31)
B+
Books adapted into film rarely translate perfectly; no exception here.
This is an unusual story about a darling person.
What a mess!
Paddy Pussy fan |
7. Living and Loving With Asperger Syndrome: Family Viewpoints by Patrick McCabe, Estelle McCabe, Jared McCabe | |
Kindle Edition: 144
Pages
(2002-12-31)
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positive and successful but could be better
One Size Does NOT Fit All
Great read, but generalizations aren't true for all Aspies
It's all about love!
Living and Loving with Asperger Syndrome |
8. The Dead School by McCabe Patrick | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1995)
Asin: B003SIXGM0 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (8)
Schoolhouse Mock
Even more engrossing than I expected!
James Joyce's Bizarre Step-Child
Excellent
Warning ! |
9. Carn by Patrick McCabe | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(1997-01-01)
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IRELAND DURING THE BEATLE YEARS This author also has a flair for providing full descriptions of his characters.One of my favorite parts in the book was when he described one character as having a Beatle moptop "like George Harrison" (the youngest Beatle who was also known for having the longest hair during the Moptop Era) and making Beatle references.I loved the nod to George Harrison's beautiful wavy hair.(The Beatles with the exception of Ringo were of Irish extraction). All in all, an excellent work and a "yeah, yeah, yeah!"
The heart of Ireland unvailed |
10. Emerald Germs of Ireland by Patrick Mccabe | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2002-03-01)
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Interesting "dark" psychological story...
Moving on.......
Smart black humor
Greatest novel ever written.
Why...why was this book written??? |
11. Phildy Hackballs Universum. by Patrick McCabe | |
Hardcover: 270
Pages
(2001-04-01)
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12. Breakfast on Pluto by Pat; McCabe, Patrick McCabe | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1999-01-01)
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13. Emerald Germs of Ireland by Patrick McCabe | |
Paperback: 200
Pages
(2002-01)
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14. Mondo Desperado by Patrick McCabe | |
Paperback: 250
Pages
(2000-03)
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You Have to Be Irish |
15. Von Hochzeit, Tod und Leben des Schulmeisters Raphael Bell und wie dem Affengesi by Patrick McCabe | |
Hardcover: 292
Pages
(1996)
Isbn: 3880224994 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
16. Breakfast on Pluto. by Patrick McCabe | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(2000-03-01)
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17. Emerald Germs of Ireland by Patrick McCabe | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2002-03-01)
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EXCELLENT source of Information! |
18. Mondo Desperado: A Serial Novel by Patrick McCabe | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(2000-03-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description He was a Booker Prize finalist for The Butcher Boy, which won the Irish Times Aer Lingus/Irish Literature Prize for Fiction and was made into a motion picture directed by Neil Jordan and cowritten by McCabe and Jordan. He was again a Booker Prize finalist for Breakfast on Pluto, which won the Spirit of Life Arts/Sunday Independent Irish Literature Award and was a number one international bestseller. McCabe has been described as "the lodestone of new Irish fiction" (Wall Street Journal), "a dark. genius of incongruity and the grotesque" (Sunday Observer) and "one of Ireland's finest living writers" (New York Times Book Review). The Minneapolis Star-Tribune commented on McCabe's "remarkable...ability to induce compassion for the unlikeliest people," and in Mondo Desperado: A Serial Novel, that ability and the full range of his "grotesque genius" (Marie Claire) combine to produce a brilliant, macabre' dementedly funny and surreally imagined fiction of intertwined narratives set in a small Irish town. McCabe himself has described Mondo Desperado as being "like Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio--on drugs." In his mondo tales of the insular town of Barntrosna, McCabe assembles a distinctly Irish crew of odd and unusual inhabitants who live on and regularly cross, often unconsciously, the border between fantasy and reality. In "Hot Nights at the Go-Go Lounge," Larry Bunyan is certain his demure wife is secretly out at night with deadbeat swingers, shooting drugs and having wild sex, while in "I Ordained the Devil," the Bishop of Barntrosna confesses that his ordination of Father Packie Cooley was really an ordination of His Satanic Majesty. Another Barntrosna resident, Dr. John Joe Parkes, discovers "The Valley of the Flying Jennets," the secret place in the mountains created by his Dr. Frankenstein--type medical ancestor where his horrible, mutated genetic failures live. In the concluding "Forbidden Love of Noreen Tiernan," Noreen escapes Barntrosna, goes to London for nursing school, finds a lesbian lover, and teams up with her to rob and terrorize London until her mother, boyfriend and parish priest bring Noreen back home. With sly wit, characteristic, brilliant blending of sadness and humor and macabre genius, Mondo Desperado is a wonderfully imagined work of fiction--McCabe's most dazzling yet--from a truly original literary talent. Customer Reviews (7)
Truth Masquerading as Absurdity Even Pat Cork's opening "Appreciation" of Phildy's decision to cast the citizens of Barntrosna as characters in a low-budget, B-movie (reminiscent of those the boys used to sneak out of school to see) is hilarious.And the citizens of Barntrosna don't let Phildy down.Time and again, they prove themselves more than worthy of any B-moviemaker's attention. There is nothing quite as shocking in "Mondo Desperado" as the heinous crimes that took place in McCabe's masterpiece, "The Butcher Boy" and the citizens of Barntrosna aren't quite as off-the-wall hysterical as Patrick Braden, star of "Breakfast on Pluto," but "Mondo Desperado" does prove time and time again just how desperate the world really is. There is the priest who believes he has ordained Satan himself, the Barntrosna girl who finds lesbian love in London and most of all, there is Larry Bunyan, the protagonist of "Hot Nights at the Go-Go Lounge."Larry, for reasons both he and I don't quite understand, believes his rather frumpy wife, Cora, is having more than one affair behind his back.Larry is overcome with disbelief, but still, he says, he really has to hand it to Cora, for who would have believed it. What McCabe's characters share in common, and the thread that ties these stories together, is the pathetic quality of their ludicrous plights.Plights they have, for the most part, created themselves.We don't want to be like them, but we can't help but see little bits and pieces of ourselves in them and it makes us laugh or cry...depending on good a sense of humor one has. I don't think "Mondo Desperado" is quite Patrick McCabe at his finest.I think you need "The Butcher Boy" or "Breakfast on Pluto" for that, but "Mondo Desperado" comes very close.It's satiric, it's wacky, it's ludicrous, it's truth masquerading as absurdity.If you haven't yet read Patrick McCabe, "Mondo Desperado" might be a great place to start.
Baring All in Barntrosna
A Desperate World Indeed The narrator of Mondo Desperado, which is structured like a series of short stories, is Phildy Hackball who takes us on a tour of Barntrosna.Although Phildy describes his major interests as being the cinema and drinking with his friends, his real passion lies in writing weird and wonderful stories based on his own unique observations of the residents of Barntrosna.With Hackball as narrator, McCabe allows himself carte blanche to let his absurdly comic imagination run wild.The results are dark, surreal, hilarious and outrageous.The tone of Mondo Desperado is in perfect keeping with its absurd subject matter.Hackball is a narrator who is never afraid of taking the liberty of using ten adjectives to describe something when one would have done very nicely.He gives us a view of life that is nothing less than a surrealistic riot, a panoply of color and activity concealed beneath the facade of the average Irish town. It is this very absurdity of the mundane and the ordinary that gives McCabe his unique vision of the world and sets his work apart from that of other writers.Although the events described in Mondo Desperado are surrealistic in the extreme, each one is firmly rooted in reality.We begin by identifying with the characters so completely and then McCabe, in his genius, takes them to the blackest reaches of their soul and inflicts upon them the most terrible and bizarre of circumstances.These stories of a stifling, oppressive society, of overbearing mothers and hard drinking fathers, of hormonally-crazed young people driven slightly insane are, frighteningly, only a small step away from the world in which each of us lives our day-to-day life. This is McCabe's unique talent and it is a talent he has developed to the fullest.He can make us laugh out loud and, at the same time, make us take a serious look at our prejudices, our stereotypes, our beliefs, our lives.Mondo Desperado is a book that deserves to be read by lovers of black comedy, lovers of good literature and anyone with an interest in modern-day rural Ireland.It is a wild roller coaster ride to the very edge of consciousness through a desperate world, indeed.
Entertaining but mired in excessive language On the plus side, the stories were funny and unexpected. None were predictable and many were downright outrageous. I especially liked the last (and longest) of the stories which involved a beautiful and selfless young nurse-in-training who becomes an outlaw submissive lesbian. McCabe has a fine imagination that incorporates some of the underbelly of society with a lightheartedness that not many authors can do. He is reminiscent of Vonnegut in his ability to create entertaining, unusual stories, but Vonnegut reads effortlessly, which, unfortunately, isn't the case with this book. Three stars, but streamlined language would have made it four.
mucho disappointment |
19. Breakfast on Pluto tie-in by Patrick Mccabe | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2005-12-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Conceived in a moment of mad passion by a randy Irish priest and his temporary housekeeper -- and abandoned on a doorstep in a Rinso box as an infant -- her ladyship "Pussy" (né Patrick) Braden grew up fabulous and escaped tiny Tyreelin, Ireland, to start life anew in London. In blousy tops and satin miniskirts she plies her trade as a transvestite rent boy on Picadilly's Meat Rack, risking life and limb among the city's flotsam and jetsam. But it is the 1970s, and fear haunts the streets of London and Belfast -- and as radioactive history approaches critical mass, the coming explosion of violence and tragedy may well blow Pussy's fragile soul asunder. |
20. Critical Guide to Catholic Reference Books (Research Studies in Library Science, No 20) by James Patrick McCabe | |
Hardcover: 323
Pages
(1989-10)
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