Orange rhymes with everything
By: Adrian McKinty.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. Morrow
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.; Teenage girls -- Fiction.; Orangemen -- Fiction.; Northern Ireland -- Fiction.
Description: A compelling and highly original debut novel, Orange Rhymes With Everything vividly portrays a little-examined part of Irish life. Adrian McKinty uses the parallel stories of two outsiders - a girl and a criminal with a penchant for violence - to explore the sense of alienation experienced by Protestants in Northern Ireland, a world overshadowed by religious and political tensions.

Set in the 1980s during the four days before Halloween - the end of the Celtic year - Orange Rhymes With Everything centers around a teenage girl living in Ireland and an Irish man being held in a New York City mental hospital in connection with violent acts. He seems destined to cross paths with the girl, who may be his estranged daughter.