The plastic tomato cutter - Softcover
Set in Limerick, this novel runs along two timescales - the Fifties and the present. In alternating first-person narratives, we hear the voices of Mr Yendall, clerk of the tailoring House of Montaune, and Tim Harding, the English Protestant bastard of the local doctor.
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About the Author:
Michael Curtin was born in Limerick in 1942 and is best known for his novel The Plastic Tomato Cutter (Zondervan, 1991), set in his native city. He is also the author of the novels The Self-Made Men (Penguin Books, 1980), The Replay (Sphere Books, 1981), The League Against Christmas (HarperCollins, 1989), The Cove Shivering Club (Zondervan, 1996) and Sing (Zondervan, 2001). The plots of his work tend toward the comic and range from the farcical to the dark and understated.
From Publishers Weekly:
Brilliant satire enlivens this bittersweet, amoral chronicle of society's changing values and the friends who confront them. Two narrators define the Irish city of Limerick in counterpoint: one commenting on the passing scene as he holds out against change, the other struggling with the absurdities of contemporary life. The first voice is that of Mr. Yendall of the House of Montague, a men's clothier which, at the novel's opening, has already begun its gradual decline. The second narrator is Tim Harding, the 28-year-old president (and sole employee) of Fagend, a company that helps people stop smoking. Curtin ( The League Against Christmas ) also populates his novel with a handful of other memorable people whose lives are variously roguish and sportive, winsome and bilious. The most interesting character is Yendall, whose heroic refusal to acknowledge the decades of modernism (to which the title alludes) ultimately elicits admiration. As the book concludes, Curtin raises the banner for controlled anarchy: enemies become friends, legal and religious standards are overlooked for the better and Harding comes full circle to begin helping those who can't manage to relinquish their cigarettes.
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- PublisherAbacus
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0349103143
- ISBN 13 9780349103143
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages249
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