โ Scribed by Holohan, Kevin
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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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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
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
### Review Kevin Holohan's strange yet disconcertingly recognizable world has echoes of Flann O'Brien's and Monty Python's, but there is rage as well as absurdist comedy. THE BROTHERS' LOT is a memorable, skillfully wrought, and evocative satire of an Ireland that has collapsed under the weight of
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