- Paperback: 216 pages
- Publisher: Rathina Press (30 Nov 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 095395580X
- ISBN-13: 978-0953955800
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,819,339 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
In the Village of the Immortals, reality having a nervous breakdown. Wyatt has spied the drowsy planet Rictus Minor. An abandoned railway station, discovered by the manic surveyor Quirke, becomes a crack in eternity. Meanwhile, Corcoran is dabbling with mental fire, and Walshe's bassoon is playing itself. When the voluptuous archangel de Coote arrives to hand out instant orgasms, Starkey - the maestro of oneiric engineering - detects the onset of terminal entropy. But Starkey has been secretly overhauling this exhausted reality and a miraculous metamorphosis is about to take place.
With its cast of extraordinary characters, Starkey is an extravagant comic parable of human folly in the Irish baroque tradition which sees reality as bankrupt, something to be parodied, dismantled and re-invented according to the liberating impulses of the imagination.
With its cast of extraordinary characters, Starkey is an extravagant comic parable of human folly in the Irish baroque tradition which sees reality as bankrupt, something to be parodied, dismantled and re-invented according to the liberating impulses of the imagination.
About the Author
Paul R. Hyde is a former winner of the Hennessey Award (Dublin) and also of various Arts Council grants. His latest book is The Second Death of Hamlet and is also available from Amazon. The author's website at paul-hyde-author contains extracts from his work. At present he teaches in Italy and spends his free time in County Sligo working on a new novel.
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5 Stars for an excelent read,
By Tony (Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Starkey (Paperback)
This gets top marks for enjoyment. Starkey is a very clever and very funnyread. It's one of those books that create their own verson of reality. In Starkey, nothing can be taken for granted and behind the whimsical humour there is something serious. Above all the writing is to die for - on almost every page there are bits worth quoting. Starkey is real literature and the author deserves to be much better known.
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Weird and wacky - but fun,
By Secretary (Italy) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Starkey (Paperback)
This novel doesn't remind me of anything I've ever read before and I have no idea where the author got his crazy ideas from or which writers might have influenced him. It's described as ' Irish baroque' whatever that means. But the book is full of mad characters and wacky ideas and I thought it was stupendous - great sense of crazy comedy and freedom. It was a real pleasure to read - in fact I'll read it again and recommend it to others.
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A Five Star Read,
By Steve Guttemberg (Italy) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Starkey (Paperback)
The blurb for Paul R. Hyde's comic novel Starkey announces that 'reality is having a nervous breakdown'. This suggested to me that we were in the same territory as perhaps Flann O'Brien and Lewis Carroll. The book has a number of oddball lunatics as characters led by Starkey himself who is involved in 'oneiric engineering' along with his 'illustrious colleagues' Quirke who is a finance expert and crook and also Walshe who has discovered 'the drowsy planet Rictus Minor'. Of course nothing in Starkey is as it first seems. The main metaphor in the novel is entropy and the end of the world and to avoid this Starkey is trying to regenerate reality. The characters are hilarious eccentrics and the writing quality is extremely high. I enjoyed it enormously.
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