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No News At Throat Lake
 
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No News At Throat Lake (Hardcover)
by Lawrence Donegan (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Viking (10 Jul 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0670882208
  • ISBN-13: 978-0670882205
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 700,285 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Guardian journalist and ex-Lloyd Cole and the Commotions bassist Lawrence Donegan always had a hankering to live in Ireland. "It was a back-to-my-roots thing. London was filthy, crowded, expensive. Above all, it was inhospitable. I had lived in the same ground-floor flat for eight years and I still had yet to pass a civil word with anyone in the street." In No News at Throat Lake he says goodbye to all that and exchanges flat, job and girlfriend for a shack in Creeslough, County Donegal.

It's no Year in Provence . The shack is rat-infested, the promised job on a farm proves non-existent and there's scant social-life. But Donegan perseveres (partly because he's too ashamed to tell his girlfriend he couldn't hack it) so finds a job on the Tirconail Tribune and mates on the local Gaelic football team. The newspaper, run by a man named John Mcteer ("In another life John McTeer had been Gore Vidal with stronger opinions, Henry Ford with ambition"), revitalises Donegan's enthusiasm for news reporting, as he investigates local life. He goes on a pilgrimage to the shrine at Knock, researches the life of Doris Duke's Creeslough-born butler and, surprisingly, interviews Meryl Streep in this funny and poignant tale of life in rural Ireland. --Tamsin Todd

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This text presents a Guardian journalist's account of his year working on the Tirconail Tribune - only 12 pages long, with a circulation of 2500. Serving the people of the Donegal coast, the paper is published in the small coastal town of Creeslough, and it is here that Donegan lived during 1998. The town had a grocer's shop, a hardware store, one solitary pub and a pitch and putt course.

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