abode of fancy

[rich]

not an easy book to find for a decent price, alas

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:55 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> That
>
> ‘We Irish are a shallow people, albeit perversely fair perhaps, as cruel
> to others as to ourselves, treasuring the unconsummated and the failed,
> making shallow friendships founded on fatuous fun that runs so cold in the
> bitter end, backbiting and bitching and kicking our enemies when they are
> down, snide wiseguys who refuse to acknowledge the depths, emotional
> retards embarrassed by awkward topics away from which we shy, making
> nothing but a mess of our feelings, those horrid truths we would prefer to
> edit than be undone, to find the latent fun embedded in the torment, and
> make lukewarm comedies from the hash of our life’s little disasters.’
>
> sounds even better.
>
>
> 2017-01-07 22:38 GMT+01:00 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
>
>> sounds promising
>>
>> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/23/the-abode-of-
>> fancy-sam-coll-review
>>
>> There are shades of Rabelais
>> <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/dec/23/featuresreviews.guardianreview1>
>> in this gargantuan feast of lingual felicity, peopled with giants and
>> morbidly obese alcoholic grotesques. The long-winded sentences seem to have
>> been secreted rather than accreted (which is apt since the novel is awash
>> with jizz, piss, puke, shit and snot). A single sentence describing a young
>> woman walking towards her boyfriend under the anguished eye of a third
>> character, who secretly pines for her, is agonisingly and hilariously drawn
>> out over the best part of three pages.
>>
>> rich
>>
>
>
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