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Boyhood
Cult author David Keenan's most mature, magical and profoundly realised book yet, Boyhood is a kaleidoscopic celebration of the intricate connections between all of our lives. The kidnap and murder of a young boy outside a football ground in 1979 triggers a coming together of angels as they piece together the trail of a serial murderer named the Vampire of Derry. The brother of the murdered child discovers redemptive, messianic powers.
He begins to see through the past and present, joining the dots between a vast array of characters tied up in each other's fate. From pre-war Paris to the Second World War, 1970s Derry to 1980s Mexico City, Paris and Glasgow via real historical figures like the modernist poet Saint-John Perse and the punk group The Undertones, Boyhood is a hymn to the resilience of young people, to the brave dreams of artists and lovers, to devastating heartbreak and loss.
It is also a love letter to Glasgow, a city at the centre of the world. This is a novel unapologetically concerned with the great sweep of history. It unites lost children, wild gangsters, mutilated soldiers, beautiful ballerinas and young girls setting out for adventure. It is also a book of great joy, of laughter in the face of horror and delight in language and the telling of stories, seen, finally, from the viewpoint of the angels themselves.
He begins to see through the past and present, joining the dots between a vast array of characters tied up in each other's fate. From pre-war Paris to the Second World War, 1970s Derry to 1980s Mexico City, Paris and Glasgow via real historical figures like the modernist poet Saint-John Perse and the punk group The Undertones, Boyhood is a hymn to the resilience of young people, to the brave dreams of artists and lovers, to devastating heartbreak and loss.
It is also a love letter to Glasgow, a city at the centre of the world. This is a novel unapologetically concerned with the great sweep of history. It unites lost children, wild gangsters, mutilated soldiers, beautiful ballerinas and young girls setting out for adventure. It is also a book of great joy, of laughter in the face of horror and delight in language and the telling of stories, seen, finally, from the viewpoint of the angels themselves.
Cult author David Keenan's most mature, magical and profoundly realised book yet, Boyhood is a kaleidoscopic celebration of the intricate connections between all of our lives. The kidnap and murder of a young boy outside a football ground in 1979 triggers a coming together of angels as they piece together the trail of a serial murderer named the Vampire of Derry. The brother of the murdered child discovers redemptive, messianic powers.
He begins to see through the past and present, joining the dots between a vast array of characters tied up in each other's fate. From pre-war Paris to the Second World War, 1970s Derry to 1980s Mexico City, Paris and Glasgow via real historical figures like the modernist poet Saint-John Perse and the punk group The Undertones, Boyhood is a hymn to the resilience of young people, to the brave dreams of artists and lovers, to devastating heartbreak and loss.
It is also a love letter to Glasgow, a city at the centre of the world. This is a novel unapologetically concerned with the great sweep of history. It unites lost children, wild gangsters, mutilated soldiers, beautiful ballerinas and young girls setting out for adventure. It is also a book of great joy, of laughter in the face of horror and delight in language and the telling of stories, seen, finally, from the viewpoint of the angels themselves.
He begins to see through the past and present, joining the dots between a vast array of characters tied up in each other's fate. From pre-war Paris to the Second World War, 1970s Derry to 1980s Mexico City, Paris and Glasgow via real historical figures like the modernist poet Saint-John Perse and the punk group The Undertones, Boyhood is a hymn to the resilience of young people, to the brave dreams of artists and lovers, to devastating heartbreak and loss.
It is also a love letter to Glasgow, a city at the centre of the world. This is a novel unapologetically concerned with the great sweep of history. It unites lost children, wild gangsters, mutilated soldiers, beautiful ballerinas and young girls setting out for adventure. It is also a book of great joy, of laughter in the face of horror and delight in language and the telling of stories, seen, finally, from the viewpoint of the angels themselves.
