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The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad

A Mostly Irish Farce

By (author) Roger Boylan
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, United States
Published: 30th Oct 2003
Dimensions: w 139mm h 209mm d 30mm
Weight: 566g
ISBN-10: 0802140327
ISBN-13: 9780802140326
Barcode No: 9780802140326
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Synopsis
Roger Boylan's first novel, Killoyle, established him as a brilliant successor to such Irish masters as Joyce, Beckett, and J. P. Donleavy. Now his new farce follows the hapless inhabitants of Killoyle, Ireland, through the frenetic week of the Pint-Pulling Olympiad. After local lush Mick McCreek gets into a car crash with a cross-dressing church sexton, he enlists a lawyer, Tom O'Mallet. As it turns out, the lawyer's real gig is selling missiles to the IRA, and he plans to use his clueless client as a patsy. O'Mallet also hoodwinks Anil, an Indian waiter who has found himself the unlikely target of a manhunt. What Tom doesn't know is that his lucrative weapons are destined for a massive terrorist attack on the Pint-Pulling Olympiad, and that Anil's sexy cousin Rashmi a sweatshop worker turned intelligence operative is hot on the bombers' trail. With a wink and a nudge, Boylan's pyrotechnic prose brings to life Ireland at its manic extremes, proving the author a dazzling and distinctive talent in American fiction.

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