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The Life And Times Of A Tea Boy
On sale
3rd May 2001
Price: £9.99
Ambrose Feeney has seen his hopes and ambitions dashed by others’ influence and his own inertia. His Limerick is an old siege city of walls, both real and psychological. As Ambrose descends into lunacy he paints a starkly sane portrait of one family’s life in an Ireland unsoftened by the mists of legend.
The Life and Times of a Teaboy begins with the recollection of a Christmas past and ends with the entrance of the principal character into a lunatic asylum; a crisis in personal growth that mirrors the nation’s.
‘He is one of the most exciting talents to have emerged not only from Ireland but anywhere in recent decades’ The Times
The Life and Times of a Teaboy begins with the recollection of a Christmas past and ends with the entrance of the principal character into a lunatic asylum; a crisis in personal growth that mirrors the nation’s.
‘He is one of the most exciting talents to have emerged not only from Ireland but anywhere in recent decades’ The Times
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Collins is a considerable stylist . . . his prose has a thoughtful, sinewy quality, a kind of subliminal toughness of mind
Collins is undoubtedly an exciting talent, capable of writing razor-sharp prose and he has produced a gripping, stylish novel that deserves to be read
A style so arrestingly visual it hijacks the reader's concentration; dazzling with the energy and originality of the language
[Collins] is a stylist, blessed with the gift of having something worth saying
One of the most exciting talents to have emerged not only in Ireland but anywhere in recent decades