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Temporarily out of stock
Title: For The Good Times
Author: KEENAN DAVID
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 04/02/2020
Imprint: FABER & FABER
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize
Belfast, 1970s: Sammy and his three friends live in an impoverished area of the city that has become the epicentre of a country seemingly intent on cannibalising itself. 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. They dream of a Free State, and their methods for achieving this are uncompromising. But For the Good Times is not just a novel about the IRA. It is about the heartbreak and devastation that commitment to ‘the cause’ can bring; of violence and betrayal, breakdown and rebirth.
ISBN: 9780571340521
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 368