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'A cyclone of a novel' Guardian An absolute marvel' Max Porter,
bestselling author of Lanny 'Dancing and dodging, surprising and
poignant' Lisa McInerney, bestselling author of The Rules of
Revelation FIRST VOICE: Why are we listening? SECOND VOICE: I
dunno, I mean, what else is there to do? Tony Cooney, a local-radio
DJ, spends his days on air, talking to the listeners of Cork. They
call in to tell him about overturned sewage trucks and nuisance
graffiti artists, each story a small testimony to the bustle of
life that goes on in the county. Off air, however, Tony is
beginning to feel unsettled. His long marriage is strained, his
teenage daughter is struggling with her mental health, and then out
of the blue an old girlfriend gets in touch and suggests he come to
visit. Lou Fitzpatrick, Tony's young radio-show producer, is having
her own off-air problems. She wants children, but her girlfriend
has other ideas; they've lost their beloved cat and her father's
drinking is way past problematic. Which is why both Tony and Lou
are relieved to leave Cork and drive across Ireland as part of a
radio publicity stunt organized by a local car dealership. Their
aim is to give away the Mazda 2 that they're driving, the catch
being that it must go to one of the many emigrants who have
recently returned home to escape a wave of escalating terror
attacks in London. But as they navigate dual-carriageways and
Travelodges, giving airtime and narrative to the great cacophony of
voices calling into the show, the car competition transforms into a
surreal quest: Tony to find his first love, Lou to find answers to
impossible questions, and all the while two mysterious voices
listen in, making their own estimations... A mighty tale of radios,
road trips and of the noisy static of life, All Along the Echo asks
us whether our lives ever add up to more than the stories we tell
ourselves. Funny, warm and in the wilding spirit of George Saunders
or Samuel Beckett, Danny Denton's novel is a bravura capturing of
modern Ireland, one that shows us the possibilities of fiction, the
nature of love and death, and what it is for each of us to be only
the briefest signal in life's splendid broadcastttzchidhcmxc
[static].
Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in
Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something to
do with the King's daughter, and a talking statue, something
godawful. And from every wall the King's Eye watches. And yet the
city is full of hearts-defiant-sprayed in yellow, the mark of the
Kid. It cannot end well. Can it? Follow the Kid, hear the tale.
Roll up! Roll up!
'A cyclone of a novel' Guardian 'An absolute marvel' Max Porter,
bestselling author of Lanny 'Dancing and dodging, surprising and
poignant' Lisa McInerney, bestselling author of The Rules of
Revelation Tony Cooney, a middle-aged radio talk-show host, takes a
road trip across Ireland with his producer, Louise (Lou)
Fitzpatrick, as part of a publicity stunt organized by a local car
dealership. Their aim is to give away to one lucky winner the Mazda
2 that they're driving, the catch being that it must go to one of
the many emigrants who have recently returned home to escape a wave
of escalating terror attacks in London. But as they navigate
dual-carriageways and Holiday Inns, giving airtime and narrative to
the great cacophony of voices calling into the show, the car
competition transforms into a surreal quest - Tony to find his
first love, Lou to find answers to impossible questions, all of us
to discover whether our lives ever add up to more than the stories
we tell ourselves and each other.
'A cyclone of a novel' Guardian An absolute marvel' Max Porter,
bestselling author of Lanny 'Dancing and dodging, surprising and
poignant' Lisa McInerney, bestselling author of The Rules of
Revelation FIRST VOICE: Why are we listening? SECOND VOICE: I
dunno, I mean, what else is there to do? Tony Cooney, a local-radio
DJ, spends his days on air, talking to the listeners of Cork. They
call in to tell him about overturned sewage trucks and nuisance
graffiti artists, each story a small testimony to the bustle of
life that goes on in the county. Off air, however, Tony is
beginning to feel unsettled. His long marriage is strained, his
teenage daughter is struggling with her mental health, and then out
of the blue an old girlfriend gets in touch and suggests he come to
visit. Lou Fitzpatrick, Tony's young radio-show producer, is having
her own off-air problems. She wants children, but her girlfriend
has other ideas; they've lost their beloved cat and her father's
drinking is way past problematic. Which is why both Tony and Lou
are relieved to leave Cork and drive across Ireland as part of a
radio publicity stunt organized by a local car dealership. Their
aim is to give away the Mazda 2 that they're driving, the catch
being that it must go to one of the many emigrants who have
recently returned home to escape a wave of escalating terror
attacks in London. But as they navigate dual-carriageways and
Travelodges, giving airtime and narrative to the great cacophony of
voices calling into the show, the car competition transforms into a
surreal quest: Tony to find his first love, Lou to find answers to
impossible questions, and all the while two mysterious voices
listen in, making their own estimations... A mighty tale of radios,
road trips and of the noisy static of life, All Along the Echo asks
us whether our lives ever add up to more than the stories we tell
ourselves. Funny, warm and in the wilding spirit of George Saunders
or Samuel Beckett, Danny Denton's novel is a bravura capturing of
modern Ireland, one that shows us the possibilities of fiction, the
nature of love and death, and what it is for each of us to be only
the briefest signal in life's splendid broadcastttzchidhcmxc
[static].
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