num_pages: 180
description: "If I had urinated immediately after breakfast, the Mobwould never have burnt down the Orphanage." So begins the hilarious,award-winning, genre-busting tale of Jude, a Tipperary-reared orphan who onhis 18th birthday sets off to discover the wide world and his trueparentage. His picaresque adventures take him first to the "Sodom ofthe West" - Galway - where he falls in love, encounters temptationsgalore and, disguised as Stephen Hawking, unwittingly blows up the HQ of aMulti-National Corporation - and himself. With his face reconstructed intothe spitting image of Leonardo DiCaprio (apart from the small matter of anerectile nose) Jude travels on foot to the inferno of Dublin, in hotpursuit of Angela, ex-Galway chip-shop employee and his True Love. Aspectacular chase through the city of Ulysses ensues, transformed byGough's talent into a dazzling metaphor of 21st century violence,alienation and progress.
language: English
title: Jude: Level 1
titlecomplete: Jude: Level 1
genres: Fiction, Humor, Ireland
ratings_count: 93
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
category: Comic Fiction
publisher: Old Street Publishing