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Ripley Bogle

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  • Author: Robert McLiam WILSON
  • Publisher: Andre Deutsch
  • Published: 1990
  • Description: Hardback, Near Fine
  • Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Ref: 5134
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Price still on dustjacket. First published in 1989, this is a stated second impression 1990. Author’s first novel. “On the eve of his twenty-second birthday, Bogle – failed student, failed lover, failed friend – unravels the guilt-laden past while battling with the present: the roofless nights, the suppurating knife wounds sustained in a brawl, his envy of the warm and well fed. But Bogle – ugliest baby of an ugly family, schoolboy wonder, teenage drunk – is not easily put down and his litany of woes is infused with such lively self-mockery and couched in such flamboyant prose that it seduces the reader with its rebellious optimism.” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH