Robert McLiam Wilson Libri

Belfast, Chuckie e Jake, protestante il primo, cattolico l'altro, sono legati da una profonda amicizia. Chuckie, antieroe grasso e sempliciotto, riesce a compiere mirabolanti imprese commerciali grazie a progetti tanto fantasiosi quanto ridicoli. Jake, invece, nonostante la sua scorza da duro, è un inguaribile romantico e non cerca denaro e ricchezza ma un amore che gli riempia la vita. Sullo sfondo i conflitti irrisolti del paese che balzano brutalmente in primo piano quando un attentato sconvolge l'atmosfera bislacca e farsesca che domina il racconto. Poi la commedia della vita cancella il sangue e le vicende improbabili e sgangherate di Chuckie e Jake tornano a dominare le pagine del romanzo.

In a city blasted by years of force and fury, but momentarily stilled by a cease-fire, two unlikely friends search for that most human of needs: love. But of course, a night of lust will do. Jake Jackson and Chuckie Lurgan--one Catholic, one Protestant--navigate their sectarian city and their nonsectarian friendship with wit and style. Chuckie, an unemployed dreamer, stumbles into bliss with a beautiful American who lives in Belfast. Jake, a repo man with the soul of a poet, can only manage a hilarious war of insults with a spitfire Republican whose Irish name, properly pronounced, sounds like someone choking.Brilliant, exuberant, and bitingly funny, Eureka Street introduces us to one of the finest young writers to emerge from Ireland in years.

'I'm Ripley Bogle. It's with purpose, fear and gratitude that I stalk the streets of the city.'As the scene shifts from the streets of London, to Oxford and Belfast, the tramp, Ripley Bogle, narrates his gripping and alarming story in which it becomes increasingly difficult to tell what is true... číst celé