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Poguemahone
- Narrated by: Patrick McCabe
- Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
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Summary
A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto.
Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic free-verse monologue tells their family story. Exile from Ireland and immigrant life in England. Their mother’s trials as a call girl. Young Una’s search for love in a seemingly haunted hippie squat, and the two-timing Scottish stoner poet she’ll never get over. Now she sits outside in the sun as her memories unspool from Dan’s mouth and his own role in the tale grows ever stranger—and more sinister.
A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue, Patrick McCabe’s epic reinvention of the verse novel combines Modernist fragmentation and Beat spontaneity with Irish folklore, then douses it in whiskey and sets it on fire. Drinking song and punk libretto, ancient as myth and wholly original, Poguemahone is the devastating telling of one family’s history—and the forces, seen and unseen, that make their fate.
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- Stephen reid
- 07-06-22
Potential Booker winner
Unbelievably unique and inventive novel brilliantly narration by the author. I hope it gets the attention it richly deserves and reaches a wide audience.
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- Pat Lynch
- 23-05-22
what if??
..what if the cast off voiceless found their tongue in the likes of...Dan Fogerty? from old Ireland to 70s London to present day and beyond... way beyond... this is a tale told from the other side...the story of Una as hijacked by her rogue brother..it's a story of imagination and idealism to love gained and dreams lost to breakdown and mental decay...as hair raising chilling as it is laugh out loud funny it's a wild roller coaster trip of a yarn narrated magically by it's author who could be on the stage if he weren't writing books.. these characters have been great company.. I'll miss their voices in my head. superb. like nothing you've encountered or will do again.
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