Buy this book on-line McCABE,PATRICK**: : THE HOLY CITYLONDON.BLOOMSBURY,2009. ISBN 9780747597568.
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Now entering his sixty-seventh year,Chris McCool can confidently call himself a member of the Happy Club: he has an attractive and exceedingly accomodating Croatian girlfriend and has been told he bears more than a passing resemblance to Roger Moore.As he looks back on the glory days of his youth,he recalls the swinging sixties of rural Ireland: a decade in which the cool cats sang along to
Lulu and drove around in Ford Cortinas,when swinging meant wearing velvet trousers and shirts with frills,and where Dolores McCausand - Dolly Mixtures to those who knew her best - danced on the tops of tables and set the pulses of
every man in small-town Cullymore racing. Chris McCool had it all back then.
He had the moves,he had the car,and he had Dolly,a woman who purred suggestive songs and tugged gently at her skin-tight dresses,a Protestant femme fatale who was glamorous,transgressive and who called him her very own 'Mr Wonderful'.She was,in short,the answer to this bastard son of a Catholic farmer's prayers.
Except that there was another Mr Wonderful in town,a certain Marcus Otoyo - a young Nigerian with glossy
curls and a dazzling devoutness that was all but irresistable.
Although Chris,of course,was interested in Marcus only because of
their shared religious fervour and mutual appreciation of the finer things.That was all.Besides,Mr McCool was always a hopeless romantic - some even described him as excessively so - perhaps,even occasionally,obsessive - but is there anything wrong with that?
Spiked with macabre humour and disquieting revelations,'The Holy City' is a brilliant,disturbing and compelling novel from one of Ireland's most original contemporary
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