Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's - Softcover

Green, Jay Spencer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1514377659 ISBN 13: 9781514377659

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

BOOK DESCRIPTION

A raucous mix of double crosses, brothels, triple crosses, and cocktail recipes, Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's is a dark, twisted, and picaresque tale, a transgressive black comedy like no other.

Joe Chambers is a CIA operative working in Dublin. Assigned to an agency-fronted publishing house, his problems include, but are not limited to, errant MI6 agents, a Francoist dwarf, insane profit-making schemes, and a tapeworm named Steve. Utterly reprehensible, he is the perfect guide to this bizarre and repulsive journey into Dublin's gutters.

Jay Spencer Green presents a twisted and exaggerated - but wholly recognizable - vision of Dublin, a place where cat's cheese salad and a dubious pork/human hybrid meat share the menu, where mass canine culling is a hobby for the masses, and where clowns, chuggers, and carneys form the heart of the resistance. It is a Dublin of no redemption.

Winner of the 2015 Lord of the Book Covers award. Voted No. 6 in the 50 Top Indie Books of 2015.

About this title

About the Author:

Resident in Ireland for the past 22 years, Jay Spencer Green has worked as a factory laborer, hotel dishwasher, van driver, conveyor belt supervisor, college lecturer, court coverer at Wimbledon, stagehand for the Chippendales, correspondence course tutor, and database editor. The consequent cornucopia of negative work experiences has provided enough trauma for several novels, which are now being stealthily introduced to the reading public like a slow-release poison. The first of these,Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's, was voted one of the top ten indie books of 2015 and won the Lord of the Book Covers award. Lisa McInerney, winner of the Bailey's Prize for Fiction, described it as "Savagely funny and deftly anarchic." 

Over the years, Jay has launched a number of projectiles into space, usually in the direction of the TV.

Review:

"Funny, shocking. Demands to be read." Arthur Smith, comedian, writer, and broadcaster

"Too clever by half. Too funny by three and five-eighths." Niamh Greene, author, The Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife 

"Savagely funny and deftly anarchic, Jay Spencer Green's writing is as exquisite as it is deliciously dangerous." Lisa McInerney, author, The Glorious Heresies

"Witty, acerbic, and wired to words." William Wall, author, This is the Country

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1514377659
• ISBN 13: 9781514377659
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332