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The Talk of the Town

The Talk of the Town

by Ardal O ' Hanlon (Author), Ardal O 'hanlon (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $4.64

  • Used

    Paperback 1999

    $3.49
Synopsis

Patrick Scully used to be his school's best striker, but now he's just a frustrated 18-year-old working in Dublin. Balls O'Reilly is getting all the attention, even from Scully's girlfriend. A weekend of drinking and fighting ensures that Scully's horrific secret will make him the talk of the town.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 244
 Edition: 1st
 Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 07 May 1998
ISBN 10: 0340693096
ISBN 13: 9780340693094

Media Reviews
Mightily impressive' - Irish Times

Ardal O Hanlon is blessed with a genuine literary talent. Fluently written and excellently constructed. A funny, moving and finally horrifying tale - Mail on Sunday

A cracker. O Hanlon s grasp of dialect and teenage concerns is spot-on. And very funny - NME

A kind of cross between The Diary of Adrian Mole and The Butcher Boy. He is extremely funny on the rituals and frustrations of small-town life and the nuances of adolescent embarrassment - Observer

[With] its vicious humour, small-town melodrama and, in its depiction of the descent into adulthood in the sticky discos and student pubs of 1983, THE TALK OF THE TOWN is a corrosively funny riot of skinny ties and Soft Cell - The Face

A funny, disarmingly savage tale of a teenager losing his soul in small-town Ireland - Guardian

This impressive debut is lit with a real spark of the Irish comic grotesque - Sunday Times
Author Bio
Ardal O Hanlon was born in Ireland in 1966. He is best known for his role as Father Dougal Maguire in Channel 4 s BAFTA-Award winning comedy, Father Ted, for which he won Top TV Comedy Newcomer Award at the British Comedy Awards. He is also a stand-up comedian and actor and has appeared in films including Neil Jordan s The Butcher Boy.