Customer reviews:
This is simply inspiring and a treasure for the most ardent of Joyce fans. A insight into the human existence.
Gerry McGovern
Funny, challenging, often astonishing in its revealing nature.
Tim Smith
For the non Gaelic reader, Iniuch Naiolann Sceal roughly translates into “reading the nursery stories.” I understand there is a connection to the story of Lir; the god of the sea, but I’m still baffled so let me tell you what I did understand. One hundred years ago, the story of Ulysses was written, based on James Joyce wandering the streets of Dublin and producing one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. One hundred years later, a man, from Birmingham, named Colin Parry wandered the same streets, drinking in the same pubs and trying to reproduce a similar masterpiece. To most, it will sound like a good excuse to simply drink a lot of whiskey. Whilst Joyce's work changed the world of literature forever, I'm still undecided what Parry's work might ever achieve. Yes, it is well written, has energy and enthusiasm, but perhaps it’s just 100 years too late.
Lucian Herald
The best evidence yet that Parry is an interesting writer...
Ahmed Khan
A story of persuasive interest and exceptional charm.Jay Dinah
Moving, compassionate and troubled, a diary as much as a story.
Harriet Basham
We've all been there, done that, and read the book but when it comes to life, it's the way this story is told that makes this particular story so inventive and persuasive
Neil Winterson
A most highly esteemed writer of his generation?Thomas Gere.
Knits a story with the fresh precision a mapmaker might bring to a new territory...With inventive imagery, the book celebrates the darker side of life. Fruity and frank, tender and poetic - it's a gem.
Sayed Kingston
I believe this to be a great book. These words are fluid, radiant and humming.
Eric Sanderson
Often very funny but often very sad.
Oliver Ambridge
One of the most breathtaking introductory novels I have ever read.
James Bolter.
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