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Call Me the Breeze

By Patrick McCabe

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| Paperback | 9780571217465

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In a small town in Northern Ireland, in the troubling psychedelic-gone-wrong atmosphere of the late seventies, Joey Tallon embarks on a journey of selfhood, of redemption, and of rebirth. A man deranged by desire, and longing for belonging, with the words of T. S. Eliot as his guide -- "We shall Continue

In a small town in Northern Ireland, in the troubling psychedelic-gone-wrong atmosphere of the late seventies, Joey Tallon embarks on a journey of selfhood, of redemption, and of rebirth. A man deranged by desire, and longing for belonging, with the words of T. S. Eliot as his guide -- "We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time" -- Tallon searches for his "place of peace," a spiritual landscape located somewhere between Ireland and Iowa, and maybe between heaven and hell.

Following the delusional, but also ultimately likable, Tallon on his quest, we unwittingly enter a world constructed by a character who is arguably more lucid during his acid trips than when he's sober. What begins as a baffling mystery in McCabe's hands becomes a raucous and ribald adventure. From Tallon's punk rock beginnings, to his stewardship of his prison's literary society, to his brief tenure as director of the Youth in Action Creative Arts Awareness Scheme, and finally to his bull-like charge into the political arena, Joey's journey toward enlightenment and deliverance takes readers into the innermost heart of a man at odds with himself and the violent, sometimes surreal world around him.

Hilarious, poignant, and unpredictable, Call Me the Breeze is a literary odyssey five years in the making. It is Patrick McCabe at his absolute best.

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  • Here's to Ireland

    Call Me the Breeze by Patrick McCabe 337pp, Faber, £16.99 Who ate all the pies? And can Scotsfield's Joey Tallon really tell us much new about the complex, if predictably depressing, intersections of sex, drugs, skinflicks and paramilitary rackets in ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Ships and shadows and invisible men

    I can remember an argument between my mother and father. It happened one night and the details are very vague. I would like to be able to say that I distinctly recall the sounds of sobbing. However, I don't. There may or may not have been - that's al ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 308 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 057121746X
  • ISBN-13: 9780571217465
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Pub date: Sep 02, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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