num_pages: 480
description: 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.
language: English
title: An Evening of Long Goodbyes
titlecomplete: An Evening of Long Goodbyes
genres: Fiction, Ireland, Cultural, Humor, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Irish Literature, 21st Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1480
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Guardian First Book Award
category: Also Commended
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd