num_pages: 192
description: A novel about a poor lad who moves from rural Ireland to England to make his fortune, and who has a strange affection for words. By day he works on building sites, by night he composes poetry. When he falls down a lift-shaft and suffers a brain injury, he releases a torrent of Gaelic poetry. He becomes a TV personality, is mistaken for a bomber, and is jailed. In prison he finds the silence that he seeks.
language: English
title: Schnitzer O'Shea
titlecomplete: Schnitzer O'Shea
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Brandon Books