Poguemahone

Name: Poguemahone
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Patrick McCabe
ISBN: 9781771965279

Author: Patrick McCabe

Narrator: Patrick McCabe

Unabridged: 15 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 06/13/2022

Categories: Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Occult & Supernatural, World Literature

Synopsis

A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on PlutoUna Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic free-verse monologue tells their family story. Exile from Ireland and immigrant life in England. Their mother’s trials as a call girl. Young Una’s search for love in a seemingly haunted hippie squat, and the two-timing Scottish stoner poet she’ll never get over. Now she sits outside in the sun as her memories unspool from Dan’s mouth and his own role in the tale grows ever stranger— and more sinister.A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue, Patrick McCabe’s epic reinvention of the verse novel combines Modernist fragmentation and Beat spontaneity with Irish folklore, then douses it in whiskey and sets it on fire. Drinking song and punk libretto, ancient as myth and wholly original, Poguemahone is the devastating telling of one family’s history—and the forces, seen and unseen, that make their fate.

About Patrick Mccabe

Patrick McCabe is an Irish writer. Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on May 01, 2022

Dan Fogerty is the narrator of this story switching between a communal house in 1970s Kilburn and a care home in present day Margate. But Dan isn't quite what he seems as is revealed later in the story. I really loved the unreliable narrator and I had a lot of nostalgia for the 1970s setting. King C......more

Goodreads review by Ian on February 19, 2022

Right out of the gate, with no warning, you’re immediately launched (pushed?) down the steepest narrative slope, but just relax, let this unreliable narrator take the reins and experience the tumult. This was the most bookborn fun I’ve experienced in a good while, very “Antkind, Newburyport.” Hoo boy......more

Goodreads review by Darryl on July 23, 2022

Jeeeeeez.......more

Goodreads review by Sean on August 19, 2022

The word “poguemahone” is a anglicized form of an Irish Gaelic phrase which means “kiss my arse.” Poguemahone is a 600 page epic novel-in-verse that has been compared by other reviewers to James Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake. While this comparison, in my opinion, may only be justified by the fa......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on April 19, 2022

This won't be to everyone's taste, but if you like very unreliable narrators and constantly having your assumptions questioned and undermined, this might just be the novel for you. I'm a fan of Patrick McCabe's writing and was pleased to play a part in this novel's Unbound publishing campaign.......more