Ripley Bogle

Autor*innen

• Robert McLiam Wilson

Parameter

• 336 Seiten
• 12 Lesestunden

• 20. Jahrhundert
• Belletristik
• Geschichte
• Historische Romane
• Irland

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Ripley Bogle, a self-proclaimed bum, an excoriating and expectorating Irish expatriate from Belfast, is a Cambridge dropout who, penniless but unbowed, wanders the streets of London. Here lies the mystery of this book: how could anyone of Bogle's prodigious intelligence and powers of perception end up in vagabondage? Chain-smoking his way around London, young Bogle looks to stitch together the pieces of his ragged life - to forgive himself his sins and to find a place of warmth within his own dark thoughts. Life has dealt him a lousy hand and is not to be forgiven - though, in the end, it is to be celebrated

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Einband: Paperback