Crowe's Requiem

By: Mike McCormack

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Paperback | 1 July 1999

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CROWE'S REQUIEM tells the story of John Crowe, a young man born into a village without any apparent history or contact with the outside world. Coming under the tutelage of his mad, beloved grandfather, Crowe is introduced to an existence he feels compelled to understand but is doomed forever to find elusive and mystifying. Breaking free of the old man's spell - drifting through the city hoping to complete his education - he embarks on a sudden, erotic affair with Marian, a young woman with a broken claim to divinity. Unable to see himself except through a prison of fictions, Crowe's life begins to escape him. Love story and gothic fairy tale, teeming with ghosts, sorcerors and vagrants, CROWE'S REQUIEM is in eerie and treacherous meditation on the nature of storytelling by one of Ireland's finest new writers.

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McCormack's first novel is an extraordinary piece of work, whose opening chapters recall both Flann O'Brien and the young Samuel Beckett. In a small seaside village in the west of Ireland, an angel falls to earth and a baby boy is born who cries solidly for three days and nights. The only person who can calm him is his grandfather and so he is brought up by this strange old man. The boy tells his own story, of how he finds his name, Crowe, and later travels to the city to take up a place at college and fall in love with a young woman. It also tells why, aged only 20, he is about to die of old age. An erotic, 20th-century love story contained within a framework of magic and myth marks the arrival of a major new talent. (Kirkus UK)

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