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| Title | : | Eureka Street |
| Author | : | Robert McLiam Wilson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First 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 ReviewsWeigh Up About Books Eureka Street
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 inI loved this book when I started reading it. The first half is incredibly funny (often laugh-out-loud hysterical), with a clear voice that pulls you along effortlessly. It satirizes The Troubles in Northern Ireland brilliantly. But after reaching the half-way point (chapter 11 -- a really moving stand alone story, which by itself is worth reading this book for), it goes downhill immediately. Nothing happens, the jokes become more predictable (i.e. didn't we just read all this?), and everything
Eureka Street by Robert McLiam WilsonImagination and LoveThe novel opens with the sentence All stories are love stories and love is the major force behind the actions of the characters. McLiam Wilson uses the relationships of the characters in a symbolic way to prove that love can impact upon the sectarian violence endemic in Northern Irish society. Starting with the friendship of the two protagonists, despite the fact that Chuckle is a protestant and Jake a Catholic. In the novel, Jake is
The city's surface is thick with its living citizens. Its earth is richly sown with its many dead. The city is a repository of narratives, of stories. Present tense, past tense or future. The city is a novel.Cities are simple things. They are conglomerations of people. Cities are complex things. They are the geographical and emotional distillations of whole nations. What makes a place a city has little to do with size. It has to do with the speed at which its citizens walk, the cut of their
Don't know how I stumbled upon this novel--maybe one of those pop-up recommendations from Good Reads?--but I'm really glad I did. I'm not particularly interested in Northern Ireland, but I am interested in great writing, and this is great writing. I can't remember the last time I've been so moved by the VOICE in a novel. It's impossible not to fall in love with first-person Jake.
A laugh outloud story of men in Ireland. One I need to read again.
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