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On Saint Patrick's Day, an Irish American writer visiting Dublin takes a day trip around the city and muses on death, sex, lost love, Irish immigrant history, and his younger days as a student in Europe. Like James Joyce’s <i>Ulysses</i>, Thomas McGonigle’s award-winning novel <i>St. Patrick’s Day</i> takes place on a single day, combining a stream-of-consciousness narrative with masterful old-fashioned storytelling, which samples the literary histories of both Ireland and America and the worlds they influence. <i>St. Patrick’s Day</i> relies on an interior monologue to portray the narrator’s often dark perceptions and fantasies; his memories of his family in Patchogue, New York, and of the women in his life; and his encounters throughout the day, as well as many years ago, with revelers, poets, African students, and working-class Dubliners. Thomas McGonigle’s novel is a brilliant portrait of the uneasy alliance between the Irish and Irish Americans, the result of the centuries-old diaspora and immigration, which left unsettled the mysteries of origins and legacy. <i>St. Patrick’s Day</i> is a rollicking pub-crawl through multi-sexual contemporary Dublin, a novel full of passion, h

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Author

Thomas McGonigle

Publisher

University of Notre Dame Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780268100766

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Collections, Short Stories