Declan Burke: The Embiggened O # 1,007: In Which We Discover It's Actually Possible To Bust A Lung Blowing Your Own Trumpet

“Declan Burke is his own genre. The Lammisters dazzles, beguiles and transcends. Virtuoso from start to finish.” – Eoin McNamee “This bourbon-smooth riot of jazz-age excess, high satire and Wodehouse flamboyance is a pitch-perfect bullseye of comic brilliance.” – Irish Independent Books of the Year 2019 “This rapid-fire novel deserves a place on any bookshelf that grants asylum to PG Wodehouse, Flann O’Brien or Kyril Bonfiglioli.” – Eoin Colfer, Guardian Best Books of the Year 2019 “The funniest book of the year.” – Sunday Independent “Declan Burke is one funny bastard. The Lammisters ... conducts a forensic analysis on the anatomy of a story.” – Liz Nugent “Burke’s exuberant prose takes centre stage … He plays with language like a jazz soloist stretching the boundaries of musical theory.” – Totally Dublin “A mega-meta smorgasbord of inventive language ... linguistic verve not just on every page but every line.” – Irish Times “Above all, The Lammisters gives the impression of a writer enjoying himself. And so, dear reader, should you.” – Sunday Times “A triumph of absurdity, which burlesques the literary canon from Shakespeare, Pope and Austen to Flann O’Brien … The Lammisters is very clever indeed.” – The Guardian

Monday, May 21, 2007

The Embiggened O # 1,007: In Which We Discover It's Actually Possible To Bust A Lung Blowing Your Own Trumpet

We're feeling the love this week, people, and from 'Ireland's biggest-selling weekly magazine' (™) the RTE Guide at that. The gist of their review of The Big O runs thusly: "A smart, cynical, twist-tastic romp about a disparate group of good, bad and ugly types that is just crying out for a movie treatment ... Message to Paddy Breathnach: read this and go eat Hollywood." Paddy Breathnach? Y'mean Paddy Breathnach of I Went Down fame? Criminy! They still haven't hoisted it onto the books section of the RTE website yet, but we're not greedy - we're just going to bask in the moment. Like, c'mon, it was the Guide fer Chrissakes ...

1 comment:

Unknown said...: George Zip says...

Paddy Breathnach? More of a Joe Comerford fan myself. Have you seen Waterbags? No? I don't think he has either.; May 23, 2007 at 1:31 PM