Buy this book on-line McCABE**, PATRICK: : CALL ME THE BREEZELONDON.FABER and FABER,2003. ISBN 0571217451.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around scenic colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with b/w and pink fluorescent lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread(?) - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, white paper-covered sharp-cornered bds with bright,crisp,blocked pink fluorescent ink letters to spine/backstrip,a blue+white striped headband,and immaculate plain pale blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-341pp [paginated] includes story/novel,author's note of thanks,and a bibliography.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,verse/prose extract (T.S. Eliot 'Little Gidding' - see my book ID rja401011),and 4pp blanks at rear.
This is a book about a fat man with glasses. Aviator shades to be precise,which he only wears when he is about to go on a rampage.
Joey Tallon lives in the small,close-knit town of Scotsfield,where dread and death are the neighbours of hilarity and abandon.We meet Boyle Henry,Hoss and other sharp men of the place,and watch as they move from brutality and corruption to wealth and respectability.And Joey transforms himself too.From bovine pie-eating barman to a man of total organisation,a seeker after truth,a holy fool determined to assuage the community's guilt for its violent deaths.And it's love that has transformed him,his love for Jacy, a beautiful blonde-haired girl,so Californian in appearance she might be Joni Mitchell's twin.
Joey wants everyone to know the truth,but who'll believe the testimony of a kidnapper,a fantasist,a jailbird,when he says he knows what happened to Campbell Morris in the resevoir,and Detective Tuite in the animal pit? Who wants to hear his stories when the men of violence are now pillars of society?
But try silencing Joey Tallon. Scotsfield's only true living genius is gonna tell it like it was!
'Call me the Breeze' is a simple story of a complex desire - the story of a relentless quest for a place called home which exists in a spiritual landscape located somewhere between Ireland and Iowa.
It is a breathtaking novel which spans Ireland's last thirty turbulent years and confirms Partick McCabe as one of the finest and most exciting novelists writing today.
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