Lead Review

  • Book: The Family on Paradise Pier
  • Location: England, Russia, Spain
  • Author: Dermot Bolger

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‘Dermot Bolger’s vision is ragingly incandescent. He has been described as Dublin’s Pasolini, and truly his work exerts a cinematic grip. Bolger is to contemporary Dublin what Dickens was to Victorian London: archivist, reporter, sometimes infuriated lover. Certainly, no understanding of Ireland’s capital at the close of the 20th-century is complete without an acquaintance with his magnificent writing.’ Joseph O’Connor

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