The Devil I Know
by Claire Kilroy
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Pub Date 16 Aug 2012 | Archive Date 1 Sep 2012
Description
A charged and coruscating novel about good and evil . . .
There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile
He made a crooked deal and he blew a crooked pile
He dug a crooked hole
And he sank the crooked isle
And they all went to hell in a stew of crooked bile.
The Devil I Know
is a thrilling novel of greed and hubris, set against the backdrop of a
brewing international debt crisis. Told by Tristram, in the form of a
mysterious testimony, it recounts his return home after a self-imposed
exile only to find himself trapped as a middle man played on both sides
- by a grotesque builder he's known since childhood on the one hand,
and a shadowy businessman he's never met on the other. Caught between
them, as an overblown property development begins in his home town of
Howth, it follows Tristram's dawning realisation that all is not well.
From a writer unafraid to take risks, The Devil I Know is a bold, brilliant and disturbing piece of storytelling.
Advance Praise
'[Kilroy] packs a stunning worldly wisdom into her beautiful prose.' Barbara Kingsolver
'The Devil I Know is smart, funny and stylish, and bang up to the minute. Reading it, one squirms in appalled recognition of the extremes of greed and foolishness of our time, which Claire Kilroy portrays with devilish accuracy.' John Banville
'Dark, funny and wonderful: The Devil I Know is a shot through the heart of the Irish boom.' Anne Enright
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780571283422 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 384 |
