Title: An Evening of Long Goodbyes
Subtitle: A Novel
First published: September 13, 2005
Description: Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured Irish novels of recent years: An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. Featuring drinking: greyhound racing: vanishing furniture: more drinking: old movies: assorted Dublin lowlife: eviction and the perils of community theatre: Paul Murray's debut novel is a tour de force of comedic writing wrapped in an honest-to-goodness tale of a man– and a family – living in denial . . .
Subjects: Fiction, sagas, Fiction, humorous, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Biographers, Brothers and sisters, Children of the rich, Fiction, Film historians, Inheritance and succession, Literature, Siblings, Fiction, general, Dublin (ireland), fiction
Places: Dublin (Ireland)