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| Title | : | Eureka Street |
| Author | : | Robert McLiam Wilson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 396 pages |
| Published | : | February 22nd 1999 by Ballantine Books (first published 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. European Literature. Irish Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction |
Robert McLiam Wilson
Paperback | Pages: 396 pages Rating: 4.18 | 2956 Users | 254 Reviews
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In a city blasted by years of force and fury, but momentarily stilled by a cease-fire, two unlikely friends search for that most human of needs: love. But of course, a night of lust will do. Jake Jackson and Chuckie Lurgan--one Catholic, one Protestant--navigate their sectarian city and their nonsectarian friendship with wit and style. Chuckie, an unemployed dreamer, stumbles into bliss with a beautiful American who lives in Belfast. Jake, a repo man with the soul of a poet, can only manage a hilarious war of insults with a spitfire Republican whose Irish name, properly pronounced, sounds like someone choking. Brilliant, exuberant, and bitingly funny, Eureka Street introduces us to one of the finest young writers to emerge from Ireland in years.
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| Original Title: | Eureka Street |
| ISBN: | 0345427130 (ISBN13: 9780345427137) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Belfast, Northern Ireland(United Kingdom) |
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Ratings: 4.18 From 2956 Users | 254 ReviewsCriticism Out Of Books Eureka Street
A novel or Ireland like no other indeed! A novel like no other too.McLiam Wilson depicts an unabated Belfast after decades of violence and terror through the eyes of two common, hilarious working class men. McLiam Wilson crosses genres throughout as the reader follows the winding paths of the two friends who attempt to live aside of the Troubles and politics which, the author observes, long ago stopped involving the citizens beyond their role as victims of the violence. His sin is perhapsThe author does a very good job of placing the reader right in the middle of 1990s wartorn Belfast. His book is full of memorable characters with Dickensian names who get into hilarious and sometimes tragic predicaments. A money-making scheme involving giant dildos is truly brilliant (why didn't I think of that?!?). I was riveted by (and I reread twice) the chapter describing in excrutiatingly grotesque detail the scene of a tiny sandwich shop filled with patrons that gets blown up by a 100
This book is tough. This book is perfect for people who have this glamorized idea of Northern Ireland during The Troubles. It's like when I read a thriller about 'shit goin' down in the hood', the Bronx or Harlem, I have this instant expectation and visual. I blame the media for giving me unrealistic ideas.I can't warm to any of the characters at all, I want to punch Chuckie and I want to punch Jake too. Especially Jake, the miserable get. And Chuckie...comparing his Mammy to a drooling slug in
"All stories are love stories" is the first sentence of this book. It's not a love story in the traditional sense but a delicious tribute to the city of Belfast. In Chapter 10, McClaim Wilson writes, "cities are the meeting places of stories" and that is exactly what this book is about. Set in the mid 1990's, when the "troubles" of Norther Ireland were at a fevered pitch, Jake, a rough and tumble Catholic, and Chuckie, a fat Protestant boy with big dreams, are friends. As they grope their way
One of my all time favourites. Gut-wrenching, laugh-out-loud, crazy, true, wonderful book.
Having lived in Ireland for over 17 years, I've always made a point of reading virtually any book by either a well known or new writer from this country. Having said this, "Eureka Street" was recommended to me by a Polish friend.. (Thanks, Mac)This book is about love - it's a love song written to the greyest, wettest, dampest, most depressing city I've ever seen. Robert Wilson McLiam was, of course, "bred and buttered" in Belfast - to use an old Irish expression. This book is set in 1996, just
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