This is the Ritual

✍ Scribed by Doyle, Rob

• Book ID: 110496212
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 147 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781408865361

✦ Synopsis

Jean-Paul Finnegan stands on board the Ulysses ferry heading home to Ireland. 'Not one person in Ireland has even read Joyce!' he rants, terrifying the passengers around him. A young man in a dark depression roams the vast, formless landscape of a Dublin industrial park where he meets a strange vagrant in the grip of a dangerous ideology. A woman fleeing the break-up of a long-term relationship finds herself taking part in an unusual sleep experiment. A man obsessed with Nietzsche clings desperately to his girlfriend's red shoes.

Among these masterful stories lurk characters that straddle the boundary between fiction and non-fiction. What did happen to Killian Turner, Ireland's vanished literary outlaw? Or the Glaswegian novelist Malcolm Donnelly? And just who is Rob Doyle?

Exploring notions of masculinity, failed idealism, sex and the writing life and moving from Paris to Barcelona, Dublin and London these inventive, funny, often explicit...