Event 43
Patrick McCabe
– Church of Ireland / Charles Noell Stage
After his outstanding 1992 success with Booker Prize nominated The Butcher Boy Patrick McCabe probably could have retired undefeated and forged the career you suspect he cherished just as much that of writer, as a singer in a band.Instead he chose to create a literary sub-genre – the Guardian calls it ‘Bog Gothic – and write more masterpieces, like Breakfast on Pluto. There is no ‘voice’ like his. His vision is anarchic. His humour is crow-black. Weaned on Hollywood noir he has successfully managed to inject the dark dye of that filmic genre into his cinematic novels. Patrick will do a reading of some of his work.
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