by PatrickMcCabe (Author)
You wouldn't expect to find a mature woman of twenty-eight years of age mixed up with a bunch of swingers in a small town like Barntrosna. But that's exactly what happened according to Walter Bunyan. And he should know, she was his wife. As for Declan Coyningham - there wasn't a holier boy in all of Barntrosna - you couldn't move in town without finding a bit of him in your path or under a hedge. And what exactly did come over Noreen Tiernan that made her shriek to wake the dead as she left the main street of the village in a Morris Minor all decked in pink and blue?
Patrick McCabe's prose is as brilliantly macabre as ever. In scenes of disarming inventiveness, Mondo Desperado will make you howl with laughter from first unnerving page to last.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 250
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Picador
Published: 10 Mar 2000
ISBN 10: 0330372181
ISBN 13: 9780330372183
Book Overview: Patrick McCabe has published a children's story The Adventures of Shay House (1985), and five other adult novels, Music on Clinton Street (1986), Carn (1989), The Butcher Boy (1992) which was the winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize, was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize, The Dead School (1995) and Breakfast on Pluto which was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize.