An Evening of Long Goodbyes
Paul Murray
  • Published: 5 August 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141942032
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

An Evening of Long Goodbyes

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Big, comic, literary-commercial first novel from a young and promotable author.

Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured Irish novels of recent years, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. Featuring drinking, greyhound racing, vanishing furniture, more drinking, old movies, assorted Dublin lowlife, eviction and the perils of community theatre, Paul Murray's debut novel is a tour de force of comedic writing wrapped in an honest-to-goodness tale of a man- and a family - living in denial . . .
  • Published: 5 August 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141942032
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480
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About the author

Paul Murray

Paul Murray was born in Dublin in 1975 and is the author of An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Skippy Dies, The Mark and the Void and The Bee Sting. An Evening of Long Goodbyes was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and nominated for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize. The Mark and the Void won the Everyman Wodehouse Prize. The Bee Sting won the Nero Book of the Year Award and the An Post Irish Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Writers’ Prize for Fiction and the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Paul Murray lives in Dublin.

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Praise for An Evening of Long Goodbyes

A freewheeling adventure through modern Dublin. Hilarious, rich and satisfying

Times Literary Supplement

A sheer triumph

Ali Smith

Innately entertaining. The plot scuttles along with Wodehouse-like delirium

Time Out

Every joke, every observation, every name reverberates with playful nuance and nervy significance; the end result is a gleeful tweak of the New Ireland's proud nose

LA Times

One of the most entertaining and laugh-out-loud Irish yarns of recent years with a stack of one-liners any stand-up comedian would kill for. Quite hilarious

Irish Independent

Hugely original and funny. Nothing quite like it has been written before. Its wordplay and knockabout farce has a depth rare in humorous writing

Sunday Times

Daft, engaging, always thoroughly likeable . . . a writer of great talent

Evening Herald
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