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Hilarious and clever, a rare and brilliant novel.
It's hard to write about this book without spoilers, everything that happens in it delighted me. The characters are interesting and funny, the criminal und... READ MORE
Are you a sloot Hayden ?
Set on the clean streets of Dublin ( there's a good joke right from the off , Sloot is a very funny and very clever almost but not quite , crime / dete... READ MORE
Synopsis
A post-postmodern crime novel set on the clean streets of Dublin’s leafiest suburb, Sloot has at its heart an accidental detective who’d rather write his own Celtic-screwball-noir than solve the crime, and a narrator who loses the plot. Literally. Sound complicated? Not so. Thanks to a revolutionary structure, The Inquisitive Bullet, it’s simplicity itself.
Detours include proof that psychoanalysis is the oldest profession, validation of the dictum `For what is comedy but tragedy with loose trousers’, and a brief aside on the possibility of an Irishman having multiple birth mothers. While the plot bullet speeds, inquisitively, towards its target – the final full stop.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Bluemoose Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9781910422533
- Number of pages: 240
- Dimensions: 198 x 128 mm
- Weight: 233g
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
View allSloot: a comic novel
The scene is set in Clontarf, a leafy suburb of Dublin where nothing has happened since the death of King Brian Boru in battle there in 1014. Then Uncle ... READ MORE
Brilliant comic post modernism
In Sloot We open with our protagonist trying (and essentially failing) to entertain a crowd. His comedy doesn’t appear to be going down well, and it become... READ MORE