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By: Kevin Smith
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Published: August 2012
Pages: 280
Categories: Fiction
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781908737083
ASIN: 1908737085

Long ago in Belfast everything was nice... Life is sweet for would-be bohemian Artie Conville. Safe at the helm of his subsidised magazine -- with a cosy office paid for by the tax-payer -- he s content to drift along quoting poetry, lingering over long lunches and flirting with the lovely Rosie McCann. The main thing is to keep the real world -- of nine-to-five jobs, mortgages and political violence at bay. So when his cushy number is threatened, Artie hatches a cunning plan to keep the funds coming in. But events quickly spiral out of control and before long he is up to his ears in a bizarre fraud. Can he avert disaster? Will he get the girl? With a cast of characters that includes a gun-toting playwright, a jealous police chief, a drunken actor and a giant white rabbit, this is a rich and riotous tale about coming-of-age in 1980s Belfast; a novel that is by turns darkly ironic and laugh-out-loud funny.

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