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The Brothers' lot: a novel

✍ Scribed by Kevin Holohan

Publisher: akashic books
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 172 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 193607091X

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✦ Synopsis

Combining the spirit of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim with a bawdy evisceration of hypocrisy in old-school Catholic education, The Brothers' Lot is a comic satire that tells the story of the Brothers of Godly Coercion School for Young Boys of Meager Means, a dilapidated Dickensian institution run by an assemblage of eccentric, insane, and often nasty celibate Brothers . . .

Tackling a serious subject from the oblique viewpoint of satire, this debut novel explores the culture that allowed abuses within church-run institutions in Ireland to go unchecked for decades. The novel inhabits a space where Angela's Ashes meets the work of Flann O'Brien and Mervyn Peake, while providing a look at a regrettable era that still haunts many countries across the globe.

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