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Here are the Young Men

Here are the Young Men

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After the success of authors Donal Ryan (The Spinning Heart) and Elske Rahill (Between Dog and Wolf), The Lilliput Press continues to release exciting fiction by first-time writers with Rob DoyleÕs Here Are The Young Men.
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As they face the void of their post-school lives, Matthew, Rez, Cocker and Kearny spend their first summer of freedom in a savage apprenticeship on the streets of Dublin. Roaming aimlessly through the city, fuelled by drugs and dark fantasies, the teenagers spiral into self-destruction, fleeing a reality they despise. Set against the backdrop of Celtic-Tiger Ireland, Here are the Young Men portrays a chilling spiritual fallout, harbinger of the collapse of the national illusion. Visceral and blackly funny, this remarkable debut novel releases an unnerving anarchic energy to devastating effect.

\n'Rob DoyleÕs book is a rough but powerful debut, maybe the first novel since Kevin PowerÕs ÔBad Day in BlackrockÕ to interrogate the dark side of the young Irish maleÕs psyche.'Ê- The Irish Times \n \n'Doyle's novel is fearless in its truth as he captures his charactersÕ disaffection with visceral prose, a dark, ugly world without hope, young men without futures, a troubling reflection of societyÕs abysmal failure to recognize the needs of a generation enamored of nihilistic philosophy.'Ê- Curled Up \n \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n

Rob DoyleÕs fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review, Gorse, The Moth, The Penny Dreadful, and elsewhere. His work has also appeared on RTƒ national radio and the BBC World Service, and has been translated into French and Serbian. He studied Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at Trinity College Dublin. After several years abroad, he now lives in Dublin.

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