For the good times
Keenan, David, 1971-2019
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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. But when punk rock arrives and the hard edge of the decade starts to reveal its true paranoid colours, Sammy finds himself increasingly isolated, especially after bizarre and gruesome away days in Glasgow and London.
Main title:
For the good times / David Keenan.
Author:
Keenan, David, 1971-, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber Limited, 2019.
Collation:
vii, 348 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780571340514 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTION
Language:
English
BRN:
2263584