ABNA Entrant 2008
Excerpt from Utopia Closes by Fin Keegan
29/02/08 14:10
UTOPIA CLOSES is a black comedy about power, love,
and fear set in a unified Ireland ruled by a
vainglorious bully. After decades of abuse Marshal
Trousers begins to dimly apprehend his own humanity:
around him the knives of his lieutenants--and
offspring--sharpen, but a resurgent imagination may
be his biggest threat... Described by novelist
Nicholas Christopher as a "wild stew of a book, with
a beguiling and--to put it mildly--idiosyncratic set
of characters. As with all good comic fiction, the
underlying issues here are serious ones--politics,
nationalism, passion, love."
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