Call Me the Breeze

Call Me the Breeze

by PatrickMcCabe (Author)

Synopsis

Meet Joey Tallon, the overweight, caravan-dwelling resident of Scotsfield, the quintessential one-horse town. A man of disrepute perhaps, but when he sees Boyle Henry, Hoss, and the other heavies of the town move into positions of wealth and respectability, Joey decides that enough is enough. He knows where the bodies are, and whether anyone will believe him or not, he's going to tell it like it is...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 308
Edition: Export ed
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 06 May 2004

ISBN 10: 0571220258
ISBN 13: 9780571220250

Author Bio
Patrick McCabe was born in Clones, Co Monaghan, Ireland in 1955. His novels include Carn, The Dead School and The Butcher Boy, winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize and made into a highly acclaimed film directed by Neil Jordan. Breakfast On Pluto, published in 1998, was also on the Booker Prize shortlist. He has written two collections of short stories, Mondo Desperado and Emerald Germs of Ireland, which became a very successful RTE Radio series. He lives in Sligo with his wife and two daughters.