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The Boy in the Gap
Author(s): Paul Soye (Author)
- Publisher: Liberties Pr
- Publication Date: July 15, 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 275 pages
- ISBN-10: 1905483414
- ISBN-13: 9781905483419
Book Description
This striking debut novel opens as Jack Sammon waits in jail, accused of a horrific crime that has scarred the community. As he sits, he wrestles with his memories and scribbles the details of his life in a spiral notebook. Jack grew up on a small farm in a close-knit West of Ireland community; the middle of three children. He lost his father at an early age, a trauma made worse by his mother’s disastrous choice of a second partner. As a retreat from his home, he was drawn to the local eccentric Irene, who revealed to him secrets about his family that shook him to his core. Paul Soye is the author of two full-length plays, Cherished and The Birdcage, which won the Esso New Irish Play Award at the National Drama Festival in Athlone in 1996.
Editorial Reviews
Review
There are strong echoes of John McGahern and Patrick McCabe, but the new writer also has a lovely lyrical and evocative style all his own…an unsettling coming of age tale that lifts the curtain on the reality of rural Irish life. –Cahir O Doherty, Irish Voice
Playwright Soye’s first novel is a complex, sad tale of how a young man’s violent future is shaped by the carelessly cruel decisions of those around him…Soye’s rendering of setting and dialogue is remarkable. –Publishers Weekly 8/1/11
