An Evening of Long Goodbyes

By Paul Murray

Subjects: Siblings, Literature, Fiction, general, Fiction, sagas, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Children of the rich, Inheritance and succession, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, Fiction, humorous, Dublin (ireland), fiction, Film historians, Brothers and sisters, Biographers

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 . . .