Tom Moloney

Getting the Nod From Himself (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When Etcetera was born in 1167 he was just another mongrel pup. Unlike his mother and siblings he escaped death by drowning at the hands of a cruel farmer. The Abbott of Killeedy Abbey found him exhausted on a ditch and claimed him as his pet. While out for his constitutional on the morning of May eve, 1169, he innocently ingested an elixir that changed his existential status to that of an immortal dog. For eight hundred and fifty years, he has overcome death by ingesting the same elixir once every ten years. Now, however, a crisis has befallen Etcetera. The European Union has decided to ban one of the ingredients used to keep him alive. The impending ban is having the effect of placing him, as he says, on 'Death Row'. He feels that telling his story is his only hope. Although capable of total recall, he has 'to be selective, giving time and space to those particular decades when the lives lived of the dogs that I once was might be of most interest to posterity.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LimerickWritersCentre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463300978
• Artikelnr.: 70622684

Autorenporträt

Tom Moloney lives in Broadford, County Limerick with his better half -Bernadette. He has two beloved sons, Edmond and Thomas, in whom he is well-pleased. Nothing taxes him apart from Revenue. He describes himself as a poet-barbarian, knocking at the gates of the canon. He juxtaposes his life between two shops. By day he 'fumbles in the greasy till'; by night he turns to 'the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.' He has published two collections of poetry My Register and Killing Time. Getting the Nod from Himself is his first venture into prose fiction.

By the same author:

My Register - poetry
Killing Time - poetry