And Jimmy Phelan, the most fearsome gangster in the city and Maureen's estranged son, finds that his mother's bizarre attempts at redemption threaten his entire organization.īiting and darkly funny, The Glorious Heresies presents an unforgettable vision of a city plagued by poverty and exploitation, where salvation still awaits in the most unexpected places. Georgie is a sex worker who half-heartedly joins a born-again movement to escape her profession and drug habit. Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews. Ryan is a fifteen-year-old drug dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father, Tony, whose feud with his next-door neighbor threatens to ruin his family. ' The Glorious Heresies heralds the arrival of a glorious, foul-mouthed, fizzing new talent.' ( Sunday Times) 'Totally and unmistakably the real deal.' (Kevin Barry). The consequences of this unplanned murder connect four misfits struggling against their meager circumstances. When grandmother Maureen Phelan is surprised in her home by a stranger, she clubs the intruder with a Holy Stone. Surrounded by negative influences from his abusive father Tony to lurky neighbour Tara Duane and the puppet master of them all, his thug boss J.
This is not a good time for his boss to exploit his dual heritage by. Ryan Cusack is fifteen years old, fresh off losing his virginity and about to submerge himself in crime. Like all twenty-year-olds, Ryan Cusack is trying to get his head around who he is. It's a love story which captures perfectly the feeling of what it is to be young and bowled over by the beauty of another it's the story of a city, savage and hilarious and coursing deeper and deeper, with every page into that city's dark veins. From Lisa McInerney, hailed by The Irish Times as "arguably the most talented writer at work in Ireland today," comes The Glorious Heresies, a searing debut novel about life on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society. The Glorious Heresies is not for the faint of heart but it’s a hell of a good time.
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