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Paul Murray
ISBN: 9780241955895
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. This title features drinking, greyhound racing, vanishing furniture, more drinking, old movies, assorted Dublin lowlife, eviction and the perils of community theatre.
Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured Irish novels of the last decade, "An Evening of Long Goodbyes" is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. Featuring drinking, greyhound racing, vanishing furniture, more drinking, old movies, assorted Dublin lowlife, eviction and the perils of community theatre, Paul Murray's debut novel is a tour de force of comedic writing wrapped in an honest-to-goodness tale of a man - and a family - living in denial ...
| ISBN | 0241955890 | | Pages | 480 | | ISBN13 | 9780241955895
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 321 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Publication date | 07 Apr 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 29 | | DEWEY | 823.92 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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