The holy city
By: Patrick McCabe
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781408429198; 9781408429204
Subjects: Catholics; Fiction; Older men; Reminiscing in old age; Nineteen sixties; Large type books
Description: Chris McCool, the dandyish, debonair playboy of a small and insulated community called the Happy Club, reflects on his two lives: the one he lives and the darker one he's tried hard to forget. The illegitimate son of a rich Protestant landowner's wife and a poor Catholic farmer, Chris wanted to be a sixties swinger - driving a Ford Cortina, owning a pair of purple velvet flares - but, despite his good intentions, could not overcome the mysteries and regrets of his own upbringing.
Notes: Originally published: London: Bloomsbury.