Paul Murray

Broschiertes Buch

An Evening of Long Goodbyes

Beschreibung

Tells the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. This title features drinking, greyhound racing, vanishing furniture, more drinking, old movies, assorted Dublin lowlife, eviction and the perils of community theatre.

Autor

Paul Murray was born in Dublin in 1975 and is the author of An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Skippy Dies, The Mark and the Void and The Bee Sting. An Evening of Long Goodbyes was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and nominated for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize. The Mark and the Void won the Everyman Wodehouse Prize. The Bee Sting won the Nero Book of the Year Award and the An Post Irish Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Writers' Prize for Fiction and the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Paul Murray lives in Dublin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin / Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 846227
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780241955895
• ISBN-10: 0241955890
• Artikelnr.: 33266123