The League Against Christmas, by Michael Curtin
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‘Curtin is one of Ireland’s best writers.’ Roddy Doyle ‘Michael Curtin is one of Ireland’s national treasures - a superb comic novelist.’ Sunday Express A brilliant farce from the master of comic intrigue and, in Roddy Doyle’s words, ‘The creator of some of the best barmen in modern literature – Michael Curtin.’ A glorious nostalgic farce set in the unforgiving 1980s. The League Against Christmas are five solo whist players who meet every Wednesday night in a dowdy pub – The King's Head – in Shepherd's Bush: Percy Bateman, a drifting Irish social misfit who once spectacularly failed on the rugby pitch; Kenneth Foster, an accountant who harbours desires to cross-dress; Arthur Ellis, a former area manager of NatWest finance who wants to convert the world to using lino (not a popular flooring in the chrome-plated 1980s) and carries a piece with him at all times for the purpose; Ernie Gosling, the King's Head potman; and Diana Hayhurst, shoulder-padded editor of Unipolitan magazine for the modern woman. Each hates Christmas and the league decide to pursue an alternative: a diddly club robbery in Mellick, Co. Mayo, carried out under the hang-dog eyes of a couple of the Metropolitan Police's finest, who have mistaken the league for an IRA cell. This is Curtin at his irreverent, lovable best with a delightful cast of characters in a plot of pure devilry.
The League Against Christmas, by Michael Curtin- Amazon Sales Rank: #3050977 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-05
- Released on: 2015-10-05
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author Michael Curtin was born in Limerick in 1942 and is best known for his novel The Plastic Tomato Cutter (Zondervan, 1991), set in his native city. He is also the author of the novels The Self-Made Men (Penguin Books, 1980), The Replay (Sphere Books, 1981), The League Against Christmas (HarperCollins, 1989), The Cove Shivering Club (Zondervan, 1996) and Sing (Zondervan, 2001). The plots of his work tend toward the comic and range from the farcical to the dark and understated.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. The League Against Loneliness By Amazon Customer This book is centred around the lonely life of Percy Bateman, a middle-aged Irish emigrant living in London. His only social outlet is a solo school, consisting of himself and four other players, which meets every Wednesday night in The King's Head pub.One night it emerges in conversation that everyone in the school hates Christmas, and from there they develop a hare-brained plot to "sabotage Christmas". Bateman is acutely concious of the misery of the lonely at Christmas time, and he becomes effectively the chief tactician for this campaign. The stated target is Christmas, but Bateman's real targets are his upbringing, his father, his native town, and everything else that he blames for his arriving into middle age in such a sad and miserable state.Bateman is a pathetic figure, and the unrelieved misery of his existence is offset by two wildly eccentric characters, one a cross-dresser and the very picture of outward respectability, the other a lino fetishist.This is in many ways a very sad book, and culminates in a truly moving scene involving Bateman, his father and his godfather, in the front room of his father's house. However, you will do a lot of laughing on your way to this denouement. In particular, the speculations of a police seargent about the possible benefits available through the National Health Service had me in stitches.Michael Curtin assembles a gallery of disturbed characters who twist and turn their way through their difficulties and their mad-cap plot en route to striking their blow for The League Against Christmas. The one quibble I had with the book was Bateman's tiresome soliloquays, but otherwise this is a well-plotted, very funny and engaging book that is well worth reading.
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