β Scribed by Paul Murray
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Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured Irish novels of recent years: An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. Featuring drinking: greyhound racing: vanishing furniture: more drinking: old movies: assorted Dublin lowlife: eviction and the perils of community theatre: Paul Murray's debut novel is a tour de force of comedic writing wrapped in an honest-to-goodness tale of a manβ and a family β living in denial . . .
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Vastly entertaining and outright hilarious, Paul Murrayβs debut heralds the arrival of a major new Irish talent. His protagonist is endearing and wildly wittyβpart P. G. Wodehouseβs Bertie Wooster, with a cantankerous dash of **A Confederacy of Dunces**β Ignatius J. Reilly thrown in. With its rollic
### From Publishers Weekly If Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster were plopped into the 21st century, his adventures might resemble those of Charles Hythloday, the buffoonish hero of Murray's insouciant romp, shortlisted for the Whitbread. For three years, ever since his father died, 20-something Charles ha
SUMMARY: Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
Three satiric plays by Oscar-winning screenwriter Ethan Coen _Raising Arizona, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading_ \--the Coen brothers' ο¬lms are some of the most critically acclaimed and iconic of our time. Now, one half of the duo, Ethan Coen, adds playwriting to his eclectic
Welcome to the grand opening of Fromagerie Bessette. Or as it's more commonly known by the residents of small- town Providence, Ohio-the Cheese Shop. Proprietor Charlotte Bessette has prepared a delightful sampling of bold Cabot Clothbound Cheddar, delicious tortes of Stilton and Mascarpone, and a t