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Synopsis
O'Grady comes home from jail to an Irish area of London weathering the harsh new climate of Mrs. Thatcher’s Britain. Though this is a place he recognizes, he now feels lost in it. His estranged wife has moved on, and the daughter he barely knows is living with a wealthy record producer. Alcohol and the random chances it brings begin to define his life. People offer him schemes and fantasies, and he is expected to perform some action that will change lives. Undermining the conventions of the thriller, this book is an evocation of the gray avenues and pubs of Irish London as its most hopeless, semi-criminal milieu of the lost.
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About the Author
Chris Petit is a novelist and film-maker. His work in film includes 'Radio On', 'Chinese Boxes' and (with Iain Sinclair) 'The Cardinal and the Corpse', 'The Falconer and Asylum' and a forthcoming film on the M25. His first novel Robinson is published by Granta Books. He has also written The Psalm Killer (1997) and Back From the Dead (1999). He lives in London.
Review
On his return to North London after 10 years in prison former hard-man O'Grady finds that the Irish community has moved out of the area and many of his criminal friends have eased themselves into respectable middle age. An acclaimed noir thriller that convincingly portrays the dismembering effect of the 1980s on people and places.
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- PublisherGranta Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1862075298
- ISBN 13 9781862075290
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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