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Jude: Level 1 (Paperback)

by Julian Gough (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Old Street (2 Jul 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1905847246
  • ISBN-13: 978-1905847242
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 81,383 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"If I had urinated immediately after breakfast, the Mob would never have burnt down the Orphanage." So begins the hilarious, genre-busting tale of Jude, a Tipperary-reared orphan who on his 18th birthday sets off to discover the wide world and his true parentage. His picaresque adventures take him first to the "Sodom of the West" - Galway - where he falls in love, encounters temptations galore and, disguised as Stephen Hawking, unwittingly blows up the HQ of a Multi-National Corporation - and himself.

With his face reconstructed into the spitting image of Leonardo DiCaprio (apart from the small matter of an erectile nose) Jude travels on foot to the inferno of Dublin, in hot pursuit of Angela, ex-Galway chip-shop employee and his True Love. A spectacular chase through the city of Ulysses ensues, transformed by Gough's talent into a dazzling metaphor of 21st century violence, alienation and progress.

From the Publisher
April 2007: The prologue to "Jude" - "The Orphan and the Mob"
has been awarded the 2007 National Short Story Prize by a jury that
included novelists A.S. Byatt and Monica Ali, and Radio 4's Front Row
presenter Mark Lawson. An extract (c. 4000 words) was read on Radio 4 by
Beckettian actor Conor Lovett.

Jude is, in the author's words, "An attempt to write the most serious comic
novel of the young millennium"; it is certainly one of the funniest. Levels
II and III will be published online in instalments, beginning in July 2007,
with a hardback of the whole to follow in 2008.

"Julian Gough is so good a writer, he should probably dispense with plot.
What he has is an outstanding talent for comic scenes and for an evocation
of balmy good nature." The Observer

"Intelligent and deliciously dry, Gough's sparkling words can't fail to
make you sit up, listen and laugh." Glamour

"Like Roddy Doyle in an extremely good mood" Washington Post

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What happens when you cross Douglas Adams with Sam Beckett?, 29 Jun 2007
By Peter Kettle (Sussex, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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If you're one of those people who skip to the end of reviews for a sound bite I'll be kind and start with one: Jude: Level 1 is that rare thing, a novel that's funny and beautifully written.

For those who like a bit more meat in a review I'd say this is funny, stimulating, vividly exciting, and brilliantly written without a single boring cliche in sight. It's got a bit of Douglas Adams in it, and a smattering of Flann O'Brien. A small portion of it got minced up with Beckett, enough to get you imagining some great Irish heavy drinker like Jack McGowran. His fruity voice would be exactly right for this story of serial demolitions. McGowran would probably embroider the whole mad story into the creamy top of his Guinness. How often do you come across a writer who can make humour deep? Joyce of course, Beckett certainly, but it's pretty thin after that. Nutbeam's party in Annie Proulx's fab `The Shipping News' gets close to the same feeling, so if you enjoyed that one you'll go for this one.

Okay, who the hell am I to say this? I'm just a painter scratching a living who happens to be a fan of reading. I'm also keen on exploding buildings, and this novel manages to destroy lots of them. It also runs circles around those everyday Oirish accounts of hard times, famines and gangsters. Despite having several orphans in it the story doesn't for one moment get syrupy, and every time an orphan gets killed you'll laugh.

I shall be rooting for the next bits of this story on the net. I'll be ordering the hardback as soon as I can. It's a cheerful book with a skewed logic of its own, and I hope it becomes a major prizewinner. I want to see it issued as a film; as a range of kitchen utensils; and most of all in a signed limited edition, bound in the skin of the Salmon of Knowledge. You'll just have to read it to find out what the hell I'm talking about.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, brilliant and cruel, 20 Jul 2007
By I. KILBANE-DAWE (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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Jude (Level 1) is very, very, very funny. At least in the beginning. Then it starts to get a bit grim and Swiftian and cruel, before culminating in the most extraordinary redemption scene in literary history (at least the history of all the books I've read). The book is beautifully written, so well written that one reads it in no time at all, which is actually rather sad as it's so enjoyable you'd rather keep reading it for ages. It fast paced and will keep you glued to it.

It's not for the squeamish. Bad things happen, ugly things happen, rude things happen. Quite a lot of rather fantastical things happen.

I really don't believe in writing reviews of things that reveal the story as it's always a disappointment to then read the book afterwards and find out that you know everything already. So I'll limit details of the plot to the following ...

It's set in Ireland, first in the Middle, then in the West, then along a railway line between the West, the Middle and The East, then finally in Dublin.

OK, that's it. Go and buy it.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Innovative and in a great tradition, 31 Jul 2007
By I. McGregor "Ian McGregor" (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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Difficult for a book to cover both of the bases in the review title but this manages it.

I am a little relieved that I didn't buy this on Amazon even though I paid £7.99 and not £3.99. It's worth £7.99 - no, it's worth more than that - especially with Levels 2 and 3 starting to appear on the Internet.

It's an Irish novel in the tradition of Swift, Flann O'Brien, Joyce, Beckett. And it's also very up to date with some heavy satire which keeps on the right side of still being funny.

I can't get anywhere close to the quality of Frank Kettle's review - so I will simply endorse it - the book is all he says and more.

Read.

Enjoy.
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