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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Mew, Charlotte Mary (1869-1928)
Titre(s) : Poguemahone [Texte imprimé] / Patrick McCabe
Publication : London : Unbound, 2022
Description matérielle : 616 pages ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy
and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate. From Dan's anarchic account,
we gradually piece together the story of the Fogarty family. How the parents are exiled
from a small Irish village and end up living the hard immigrant life in England. How
Dots, the mother, becomes a call girl in 1950s Soho. How a young and overweight Una
finds herself living in a hippie squat in Kilburn in the early 1970s. How the squat
appears to be haunted by vindictive ghosts who eat away at the sanity of all who live
there. And, finally, how all that survives now of those sex-and-drug-soaked times
are Una's unspooling memories as she sits outside in the Margate sunshine, and Dan
himself, whose role in the story becomes stranger and more sinister. Poguemahone is
a wild, free-verse monologue, steeped in music and folklore, crammed with characters,
both real and imagined, on a scale Patrick McCabe has never attempted before
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781800181113. - ISBN 1800181116 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb471743198
Notice n° :
FRBNF47174319
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