* Eureka Street is published by Secker in August 1996and will make a huge impact. * Ripley Bogle is a reversion from Picador. * Praise for Ripley Bogle. * 'A star is born. His name is Robert McLiam Wilson, author of Ripley Bogle. A work of consummate skill. . . I urge you to to read it' Sunday Telegraph. * 'Ripley Bogle is probably one of the best Irish novels to have appeared in the last decade. it goes straight for the jugular' -The Times.
Robert McLiam Wilson was born in Belfast in 1964. Ripley Bogle, his debut, won the Rooney Prize, the Hughes Prize, a Betty Trask Award and the Irish Book Awards. He has written two other novels - Manfred's Pain and Eureka Street - and is also the author of a non-fiction book, The Dispossessed. In 2003, he was named by Granta magazine as one of 20 Best of Young British Novelists.
An astonishing performance, fluent, profound, angry. It made me
laugh; it made me think; it made me envious
*Irish Times*
Probably one of the best Irish novels to have appared in the last
decade. It goes straight for the jugular
*The Times*
The eponymous antihero of this splendid anti-coming-of-age novel is
a classic Irish rogue: handsome, charming, astute, articulate,
arrogant, irresponsible, passionate - above all, a chap who can
make you laugh three times per page... Underneath all the wordplay,
[Wilson] reveals with true eloquence the horrors of growing up
during the Troubles
*Publishers Weekly*
An astonishing performance, fluent, profound, angry. It made me
laugh; it made me think; it made me envious * Irish Times *
Probably one of the best Irish novels to have appared in the last
decade. It goes straight for the jugular * The Times *
The eponymous antihero of this splendid anti-coming-of-age novel is
a classic Irish rogue: handsome, charming, astute, articulate,
arrogant, irresponsible, passionate - above all, a chap who can
make you laugh three times per page... Underneath all the wordplay,
[Wilson] reveals with true eloquence the horrors of growing up
during the Troubles * Publishers Weekly *
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