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Divorcing Jack (Paperback)

by Colin Bateman (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (9 Feb 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006479030
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006479031
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 31,734 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Dan Starkey is a journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife Patricia an appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets Margaret, a beautiful and apparently impoverished student, and things begin to get out of hand. And then Margaret is murdered. This novel won the 1994 Betty Trask Prize.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best look at Northern Ireland ever written, 30 Nov 1999
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Divorcing Jack is by far the best comment on Northern Ireland ever put into fiction. Many have tried to understand the complexities of Northern Ireland, and put it in prose, but most have failed. Bateman's genius is that he doesn't even try to explain. He simply presents some reasonably believable events (yes, bad stuff has happened here) and lets the reader work it out. Even better, he throws in a bit of wit. If you can't laugh at the situation here then there's not much left to laugh at.

Bateman's unique take on Northern Ireland is a breath of fresh air to a distinctly stuffy subject. Whether you like the book or not simply take the book as a brave step in a new direction. For fans, if you like Starkey you will love 'Wee Sweetie mice and men' and his new 'Turbulent priests'.

Read, relax and enjoy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars It won't change your life but it will make you laugh ALOT!, 7 Dec 1999
A fantastic read from start to finish, I couldn't put it down. A dry humour is evident throughout the slightly surreal storyline set against a background of secterian violence. If you like this also check out Empire State & Turbulent Priests.
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4.0 out of 5 stars It's a fun book!, 10 Mar 1999
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Colin Bateman strikes a chord with most people from his part of the world.

In this text, he takes many of the modern-day facts from Northern Ireland and twists and turns them into an outrageous and fun novel which cleverly describes much of the strangeness and contradiction which is prevalent in 'Ulster'!

Don't take it too seriously, but read it and enjoy as an extrapolation of the (Northern) Irish subculture. I had fun reading this, relax a bit, enjoy the 'craic' and you will too.

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