by Robert McLiam Wilson · Minerva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749394653
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«Ripley Bogle» is the literary fiction novel by Robert McLiam Wilson, published by Minerva in paperback (325 pages, in English).
Ripley Bogle, a young vagrant and intellectual from West Belfast, wanders through London and Oxford while revisiting memories of his youth in Northern Ireland. His narration blends black humor, irony and reflection on identity, rootlessness and life on the margins, until it becomes hard to tell the real from the invented.
First novel by Robert McLiam Wilson; it received the Rooney Prize and the Betty Trask Award. This edition is from 1997.
A read for those seeking contemporary literary fiction with an outsider protagonist, black humor and Irish and English urban settings.
Robert McLiam Wilson is a Northern Irish novelist.
