For the good times
Keenan, David, 1971-2020
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Sammy and his three friends live in the Ardoyne, an impoverished, predominantly Catholic area of North Belfast. They love sharp clothes, a good drink, and the songs of Perry Como - whose commitment to clean living holds up a dissonant mirror to their own attempts to rise above their circumstances. Keen to make a difference, the boys find themselves in the incongruous position of running a comic-book shop taken over by the IRA. Their clandestine activities belong in the x-rated pages of graphic fiction: burglary, blackmail, extortion, torture, and murder - and they become transfixed by the initiatory possibilities of free-reign criminality.
Main title:
For the good times / David Keenan.
Author:
Keenan, David, 1971-, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2020.
Collation:
ix, 348 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.
Awards:
Gordon Burn Prize
ISBN:
9780571340521 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92G
LC class:
PR6111.E3453
Local class:
FT PbkAFPBKAFBCAF
Language:
English
BRN:
2589209
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