| A Sort of Homecoming Contributor(s): Cremins, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393320235 ISBN-13: 9780393320237 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $22.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: Tom Iremonger, self-proclaimed Greatest Resource of Ireland, returns home for Christmas after blowing his grandfather's legacy abroad, only to find himself fighting for his spot atop Dublin's trendy new elite, and trying to win back the beautiful daughter of a supermarket magnate. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99089011 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.56" W x 8.27" (0.63 lbs) 314 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Cultural Region - Ireland |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: After a six-month transcontinental lost weekend spent blowing his grandfather's legacy, Ireland's self-proclaimed Greatest Resource returns to Dublin armed only with his beloved leather jacket, a dwindling supply of Eurocheques, and a truly monstrous ego. Dublin, however, has changed. It seems, in fact, as smoothly sophisticated as Iremonger himself. Shaken, Tom finds himself violating some precious Rules of Cool--collecting for charity, cheating during the Forty-Foot Swim in the frigid Irish Sea, and above all trying (and failing) to win back Mainie Doyle, the urbane and beautiful daughter of a supermarket magnate. As he fights for his spot atop Dublin's trendy new elite, can it be that Iremonger's future is finally catching up with him? A novel of pints and posterboys, ravers and priests, semtex and sensibility, Cremins's hilarious debut--part Less Than Zero, part Look Homeward, Angel--is as much about some very old truths as it is about the new Ireland. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cremins, Robert: - Robert Cremins was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and East Anglia. He lives in Houston and is working on a new novel. |