Poguemahone av Patrick McCabe

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¿If you¿re looking for this century¿s <i>Ulysses</i>, look no further ¿ a stunningly lyrical novel¿ <b>Alex Preston, </b><i><b>Observer<br></b></i><br>¿Pitched ¿ deliriously ¿ between high modernism and folk magic, between gorgeous free-verse and hilarious Irish vernacular, <i>Poguemahone</i> is a stunning achievement ¿ profoundly affecting¿ <b>David Keenan<br></b><br>¿A blistering, brilliant ballad of mad tales from rural Ireland to London Town. The characters are electric, the narrative fuelled with a brilliant frenetic energy. McCabe is truly original¿ <b>Elaine Feeney</b><p>Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate. From Dan¿s anarchic account, we gradually piece together the story of the Fogarty family. How the parents are exiled from a small Irish village and end up living the hard immigrant life in England. How Dots, the mother, becomes a call girl i