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Oh When the Saints

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ISBN: 9781912589029
AuthorMoney, Peter
Pub Date19/07/2019
BindingTrade PB
Pages256
CountryIRL
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Quick overview In Rathmines, people left their houses and flats one by one, like a wall of sand beginning to break up with pressure behind it over time. The charity shops were closed for donations so someone had left a box in front of one of them. In an airport this wouldn’t do. No one noticed the hand of a doll sticking out of the side of the box but Denny did. Commuters, gripers, strategists . . . .
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‘Hyper-aware Denny, a young American in Dublin, makes his tentative way towards adulthood with a supporting cast of oddball friends. Denny hopes for a big love, the “girl named Ireland”. Akin to a Joycean ramble, Oh When the Saints follows a sensitive boy on the reluctant verge of manhood, who cannot help endlessly analysing his own – and others’ – place in the stream of life. His heart is “a sack of air” until he meets a trainee librarian with ambitions to be wild. This is a strange, elliptical novel of ideas, told in punchy, poetic prose; Peter Money’s is a vivid, fresh and welcome voice.’

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‘Hyper-aware Denny, a young American in Dublin, makes his tentative way towards adulthood with a supporting cast of oddball friends. Denny hopes for a big love, the “girl named Ireland”. Akin to a Joycean ramble, Oh When the Saints follows a sensitive boy on the reluctant verge of manhood, who cannot help endlessly analysing his own – and others’ – place in the stream of life. His heart is “a sack of air” until he meets a trainee librarian with ambitions to be wild. This is a strange, elliptical novel of ideas, told in punchy, poetic prose; Peter Money’s is a vivid, fresh and welcome voice.’