Monaghan

By: Timothy O'Grady

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Hardcover | 19 June 2025

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400 Pages

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22.1 x 14.0 x 3.1

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Moving from West Belfast and County Monaghan to the streets of San Francisco, Timothy O'Grady's exhilarating new novel is an epic portrait of art and war, authenticity and selling out, told through the fates of three men.

Ronan Treanor, Monaghan native and teller of this tale, is a celebrated theorist of post-modern architecture in New York. Paul Crane, single son of a hotel maid in Indiana, turns his mathematical gift into a multi-million-dollar career as an investment banker. And the mysterious Ryan, who drew as a boy in besieged West Belfast, but was swept up in the war against the British and lived a decade of extreme and escalating violence as a sniper. Through him, the war in Ireland and its psychic legacy are brought into close focus in a way rarely seen in contemporary fiction.

Their lives merge and conflict, rise and fall, as one man becomes the undoing of the next. Hauntingly beautiful, lyrical and profound, this is a novel about what happens when you cannot escape your past, featuring drawings and paintings by Anthony Lott.

'A bigger, broader, polyphonic novel, told through the stories of a number of men whose lives are strangely connected to each other and to the conflict in Northern Ireland.' Ian Sansom, TLS

'Beautiful and complex.' Annie Proulx

'A writer of exceptional gifts.' Louise Kennedy

'O'Grady strikes a beautiful note.' Kevin Barry

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