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Kerrigan in Copenhagen

Kerrigan in Copenhagen

by ThomasE.Kennedy (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

    $4.37
Synopsis

Kerrigan is writing a guidebook to the city of Copenhagen. Specifically, a guide to the city's drinking establishments - of which there are over 1,500. Thus, it is a project potentially without end, and one with a certain amount of drunken numbness built into it. And that's the point: for Kerrigan, an American expat fleeing a terrible betrayal, has plenty he wants to forget. The only problem with his proposed project is his research associate, a voluptuous, green-eyed beauty who makes him tremble with forgotten desire. Kerrigan in Copenhagen is both a love story and a Joycean romp through a magical city.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 07 Nov 2013
ISBN 10: 1408841940
ISBN 13: 9781408841945
Book Overview: The cornerstone novel in Kennedy's daring, critically-acclaimed Copenhagen Quartet, Kerrigan in Copenhagen is a raucous journey of longing and regret

Media Reviews
The essay, the guidebook, the love story, the comforting exchange of facts in a bewildering world of emotion - all are to be found in Thomas E. Kennedy's Kerrigan in Copenhagen ... A spiralling exploration of alcohol, history, literature, art and jazz - and Kerrigan's wounded psyche ... Undeniably smart, not least because it records the formation of a not-so-smart book. Coarse language plays off lyrical images and often stunning prose that twirls with the improvisations of the jazz musicians Kerrigan admires. It's a swirl of dichotomies ... The quest for precision - perhaps an end to improvisation - drives the novel's literally breathless second half ... Take the rough words of an educated man for what they're worth: perhaps one more miracle tipping the scales that weigh the eternal question of love * New York Times *
The reading experience feels rather like being on a magnificently extended pub crawl with a very interesting and intelligent man. I could read this again and again and it's full of both literary allusions and boozer's jokes: I'm not going to drunk anymore... I'm not going to drink any less either * Bookseller, Picks of the Month *
Strong emotional core * Glasgow Herald *
A pensive excursion into love, literature and Copenhagen * Daily Mail *
The Copenhagen Quartet is clever, very witty, and oddly unsettling * The Times *
You find yourself immersed in Kennedy's style * Mail on Sunday *
A perfect read for anyone travelling to Copenhagen, looking for a hypnotic, literary guide to a beautiful city * Irish Examiner *
Lyrical, erudite, lustful and traumatised ... In the course of this elegantly rambling, witty, discursive, often brilliant and shamelessly boozy novel, Copenhagen, as distilled in the great chaotic brewery of Kenney/Kerrigan's mind, with offer other, more interesting propositions ... For the uninitiated, Kennedy's project offers a more nuanced version of the Danish capital than any TV drama * Liz Jensen, Guardian *
Author Bio
Thomas E. Kennedy's books include novels, story and essay collections, literary criticism, translations, and anthologies and his writing has been awarded several prizes, including the National Magazine Award in 2008. He teaches in the MFA program at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Born and raised in New York, Kennedy currently lives in Copenhagen with his two children. www.thomasekennedy.com