- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (1 Sep 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007154119
- ISBN-13: 978-0007154111
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 564,241 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘A film-noir of a book, with a double murder at its core…excitingly and absorbingly told.’ Sunday Times
‘It is the best novel about Dublin since Joyce. Hano’s initiation into sleazy Dublin nightlife and Shay’s eventual tragic humiliation is conveyed with a compelling, even reckless, intensity.’ Irish Independent
‘Devastatingly forceful…Bolger is to Dublin what Dickens was to Victorian London: archivist, reporter, sometimes infuriated lover.’ Joseph O’Connor
‘All 1990s life is there – drink, drugs, political corruption – all the words that have been repeated so often now that they have lost their power to shock. Here, they shock.’ Irish Times
‘Joyce, O’Flaherty, Brian Moore, John McGahern. This is a succulent Who’s Who of Irish Writing, and Dermot Bolger is of the same ilk… an exceptional literary gift.’ Independent
‘Bolger’s themes are moral and sexual degradation and the ubiquity of corruption. The relentless honesty of his writing is savage and refreshing.’ Time Out
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‘The Journey Home’ is the story of a young boy’s struggle towards maturity, set against a shocking portrait of Ireland: a tough urban landscape, not a rural Eden.
Francis Hanrahan, the shy child of grey suburban streets, is Francy at home to his country-born parents. But when he meets Shay, an older, wilder image of himself, he becomes Hano, and is cast out into the night-time world of Dublin – a world of drugs, all-night drinking sessions in bars and snooker halls, and the stench of political corruption.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this many years ago and it had a tremendous effect on me. It's an outstanding novel about the complexity of modern Irish society. Beautifully drawn characters and scenerios, it skims along in an engaging and disturbing way.
Bolger, in my opinion has never topped this epic.
So get on Ryanair and read what is a sadly a very true depiction of the Ireland.
Glad to see that it has finally got the reprint that it fully deserves.
Bolger, in my opinion has never topped this epic.
So get on Ryanair and read what is a sadly a very true depiction of the Ireland.
Glad to see that it has finally got the reprint that it fully deserves.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is quite simply excellent. If you liked A Prayer for Owen Meany you wil love this. Bolger creates characters which take over your soul & demand to be listened to. He intertwines sorrow and joy so tighly that I was never sure whether my tears were from laughing or crying, and by the end of the book I had been though every emotion I thought possible. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this back in 1994 (?) when I also has the good fortune to meet Dermot Bolger at the Irish Writer's Museum in Dublin (where I was on holiday, I'm from Sweden).
The novel is today getting a rave review in New York Times Book Review.
It's an amazing story of three young people.
I absolutely love it...
The novel is today getting a rave review in New York Times Book Review.
It's an amazing story of three young people.
I absolutely love it...
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