Poguemahone (Paperback)

Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate. From Dan’s anarchic account, we gradually piece together the story of the Fogarty family. How the parents are exiled from a small Irish village and end up living the hard immigrant life in England. How Dots, the mother, becomes a call girl in 1950s Soho. How a young Una finds herself living in a hippie squat haunted by vindictive ghosts in Kilburn in the early 1970s. And, finally, how all that survives now of those sex-and-drug-soaked times are Una’s unspooling memories and Dan himself, whose role in the story becomes stranger and more sinister. Poguemahone is a wild, shape-shifting epic from one of modern Ireland's greatest writers. It is a wild free-verse monologue steeped in music and folklore, crammed with characters, both real and imagined, on a scale Patrick McCabe has never attempted before.

General

Imprint:	Unbound Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2023
Authors:	Patrick McCabe
Dimensions:	198 x 129mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	624
ISBN-13:	978-1-80018-238-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General
LSN:	1-80018-238-4
Barcode:	9781800182387

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