Call Me The Breeze
Call Me The Breeze
Call Me The Breeze

Call Me The Breeze

'Like a noisy night out with all the people who made you', is how Bono describes a new novel by Patrick McCabe

11 Dec 2003
'Like a noisy night out with all the people who made you', is how Bono describes a new novel by Patrick McCabe.

'In a small town in Northern Ireland, in the psychedelic-gone-wrongatmosphere of the late seventies, Joey Tallon embarks on a journey ofselfhood, of redemption, and of rebirth. A man deranged by desire, andlonging for belonging, Tallon searches for his 'place of peace' - aspiritual landscape located somewhere between Ireland and Iowa, and maybebetween heaven and hell...'

That's a brief synopsis of a new novel, Call Me The Breeze, by theacclaimed Irish writer Pat McCabe, best known for The Butcher Boy andBreakfast on Pluto. His latest novel, already out in Europe and nowpublished in the US, has been highly praised by Bono who calls it a 'dizzydrunk book'.

'Like a noisy night out,' Bono writes, 'With all the people who made you ­the geeks, the girlfriends, the bullies, the rock stars, your gauche selves.'Pat McCabe is back with a dizzy drunk book that leaves you the next daywith a sore head and heart from the laughter and smoke of ideas too big forJoey Tallons pants until suddenly they're not and we see into an Irelandwhere everything seems possible, we watch Joey being born, he delivershimself.'

From Tallon's punk rock beginnings, to his stewardship of his prison's

literary society, to his brief tenure as director of the Youth in ActionCreative Arts Awareness Scheme, and finally to his bull-like charge into thepolitical arena, Joey's journey toward enlightenment and deliverance takesreaders into the innermost heart of a man at odds with himself and theviolent, sometimes surreal world around him.

McCabe is the author of seven novels including Music on Clinton Street,Carn, The Butcher Boy, a finalist for the UK's Booker Prize - and made intoa film by Neil Jordan - Breakfast on Pluto (also a Booker nominee) and mostrecently, Emerald Germs of Ireland.

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