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St. Patrick's Day - another day in Dublin (Paperback)
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St. Patrick's Day - another day in Dublin (Paperback)
Series: Notre Dame Review Book Prize
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On Saint Patrick's Day, an Irish American writer visiting Dublin
takes a day trip around the city and muses on death, sex, lost
love, Irish immigrant history, and his younger days as a student in
Europe. Like James Joyce's Ulysses, Thomas McGonigle's
award-winning novel St. Patrick's Day takes place on a single day,
combining a stream-of-consciousness narrative with masterful
old-fashioned storytelling, which samples the literary histories of
both Ireland and America and the worlds they influence. St.
Patrick's Day relies on an interior monologue to portray the
narrator's often dark perceptions and fantasies; his memories of
his family in Patchogue, New York, and of the women in his life;
and his encounters throughout the day, as well as many years ago,
with revelers, poets, African students, and working-class
Dubliners. Thomas McGonigle's novel is a brilliant portrait of the
uneasy alliance between the Irish and Irish Americans, the result
of the centuries-old diaspora and immigration, which left unsettled
the mysteries of origins and legacy. St. Patrick's Day is a
rollicking pub-crawl through multi-sexual contemporary Dublin, a
novel full of passion, humor, and insight, which makes the reader
the author's accomplice, a witness to his heartfelt memorial to the
fraught love affair between ancestors and generations. McGonigle
tells the stories both countries need to hear. This particular St.
Patrick's Day is an unforgettable one.
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