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The Mark and the Void

December 7, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Claude is an analyst at an Irish bank just after the financial crash when he meets an author, Paul Murray. Paul maybe wants to write a book about Claude – but he’s got a strange way of doing it, and slowly these two men are pulled into a narrative that is, perhaps, being created as we read it… The Review: It’s hard to make financial writing flashy or sexy. There are your pop-science type books, like The Big […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Banking, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Humor, Ireland, Literature, Metafiction, Paul Murray, review, Reviews, Satire, The Mark and the Void

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Skippy Dies

September 23, 2010 by Drew

I really loved the first third of this book.  This is not to say that I didn’t like the second and third… thirds… of the book – but simply that I didn’t love them.  There was something almost magical about the first third – titled, in my three-part paperback slipcase edition that looks incredibly snazzy (although jeez, publishers, could the slipcase itself be any flimsier?) “Hopeland”.  “Heartland” and “Ghostland” – parts two and three, respectively – just never quite matched […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Fiction, Literature, Paul Murray, Skippy Dies, The Tournament of Books 2011

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