by Patrick McCabe · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330391627
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«Mondo Desperado» is the short story collection by Irish author Patrick McCabe, published by Picador in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Phildy Hackball narrates grotesque tales of provincial life in Barntrosna: a holy child, a wife addicted to a nightclub, or a Bruce Lee who asks him to write his biography. The gaze distorts Irish national clichés and turns into a ferocious satire of the country's society.
Published by Picador in 2000, it follows Breakfast on Pluto, a Booker Prize finalist, and maintains Patrick McCabe's characteristic social satire.
Recommended for readers of Irish fiction who appreciate black humour and social satire.
Patrick McCabe is an Irish writer. Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland, McCabe has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for The Butcher Boy (1992) and Breakfast on Pluto (1998), both of which have been made into films.
