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Ghosts And Lightning (2009)

by Trevor Byrne(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0385531273 (ISBN13: 9780385531276)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Doubleday

review 1: This is a book where not much happens and I usually don't go for that as someone who likes a good amount of plot. The book is short enough however to make you feel like you have to finish it and I'm glad I did. The basic plot is a guy's mom dies and he comes to Ireland and falls back in with his old crowd and tries to figure out why he left in the first place. For a place that is fetishized for its history its good to see Ireland portrayed in this as a place firmly in the 21st century. Dublin is a globalized city for good or ill and the characters are each making their own way with the reality they have. A lot of it is masked in the characters telling stories about what they used to do and avoiding talking about the present which adds to the melancholy. Things are slowly p... moreulled back and can make things feel like slowly pulling a band aid off.
review 2: ghosts and lightning was an ok book. byrne is a really great writer and i admire his skills at writing the story completely in dublin dialect. you felt like you were friends with all the characters and knew their personalities and mannerisms like you had grown up with them. however, i never got completely absorbed in the book. i could relate to some of the pro-wrestling descriptions and a couple of the british shows they watched, but the book had one of those "coming to terms with myself" plots that i couldn't relate to. less

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