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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 and what is fiction.

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When your street address can either save your life or send it up the creek, there's no telling what kind of daily challenges you'll face in the era of the Northern Irish Troubles. "All stories are love stories, " begins "Eureka Street, " Robert McLiam Wilson's big-hearted and achingly funny novel. Set in Belfast during the Troubles, "Eureka Street" takes us into the lives and families of Chuckie Lurgan and Jake Jackson, a Protestant and a Cath...

Ripley Bogle, one of the most memorable Irish characters since Leopold Bloom roamed Dublin, is a self-proclaimed bum, an excoriating and expectorating Irish expatriate from Belfast, and a Cambridge dropout. Penniless but unbowed, he wanders the streets of London, treating the reader to the ruminations of his teeming, romping imagination. Here lies the mystery and wonder of this book: How could anyone of Bogle's prodigious intelligence and powe...

A hilarious and moving story of Belfast, six months before and after the latest ceasefire. "Stylish, funny, black and memorable" "Irish Times". Reissue of "Ripley Bogle" also out this month.

Irrumpe en nuestro catálogo un joven novelista norirlandés, Robert McLiam Wilson, con su tercera novela, Eureka Street , que levantó ampollas no sólo en Gran Bretaña, sino también, y sobre todo, en su tierra natal.No en vano, el crítico del prestigioso periódico The Scotsman escribe de ella: «Una sátira sensata, conmovedora y en muchos momentos divertida contra las fuerzas del terror. Ante la muerte arbitraria y violenta y el conflicto del gen...