The stray sod country
By: Patrick McCabe
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Clipper large print
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rearsby, Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781407465401
Subjects: Social life and customs; Interpersonal relations; Manners and customs; Fiction
Description: It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog is launched into space, Golly Murray, the Cullymore barber's wife, finds herself oddly obsessing about the canine cosmonaut. Meanwhile, Fonsey 'Teddy' O'Neill, is returning, like the prodigal son, from overseas, with brylcream in his hair, and a Cuban-heeled swagger to his step, having experienced his coming-of-age in Butlin's, Skegness. Father Augustus Hand is working on a bold new theatrical production for Easter, which he, for one, knows will put Cullymore on the map. And, as the Manchester United football team prepare to take off from Munich airport, James A Reilly sits in his hovel by the lake outside town, with his pet fox and his father's gun, feeling the weight of an insidious and inscrutable presence pressing down upon him.