{"title":"Books by Blindboy Boatclub","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780717181001","title":"The Gospel According to Blindboy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSunday Business Post \u003c\/em\u003eBook of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlindboy Boatclub is one half of the Rubberbandits, Ireland’s foremost satirist and now the talented author of a collection of brilliant short stories and visual art. Published to critical acclaim, his first collection is powered by big themes and even bigger ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere are stories about a van fuelled by Cork people’s accents, Tipperary’s first ISIS recruit, a sexually aggressive banshee and a fridge dragged heroically through the streets of Limerick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Gospel According to Blindboy\u003c\/em\u003e questions and challenges the complacencies and contradictions at the heart of modern Ireland. Whip-smart, provocative and animated by his unmistakable dark wit, it is one of the most original collections of short stories to emerge in recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Mad, wild, hysterical, and all completely under the writer’s control  – this is a brilliant  debut.’ Kevin Barry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘If you’ve ever witnessed (there’s no other word for it) a Rubberbandits video you’ll be anxious (there’s no other word for it) to read this collection of short stories from one of the originators. I hesitate to use the word author as the experience is as close to reading a traditional short story as being burnt by a blow torch. Essential, funny and disturbing.’ Danny Boyle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘One of Ireland’s finest and most  intelligent comic minds delivers stories so blisteringly funny and sharp your fingers might bleed. In language so delicious you can taste it, we’re shown holy and unholy Ireland: a land of lock-ins, nettle stings, stone-mad  Cork birds, gas cunts and Guiney’s jeans. No one is safe – we all have the unmerciful  piss ripped out of us and there’s no escape from the emotional gut punches,  expertly dealt.’ Tara Flynn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Demented, dishevelled and deeply surreal - Blindboy Boatclub's book will shock and delight.’ \u003cem\u003eIrish Independent \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘It's not for the faint-hearted.’ \u003cem\u003eJoe.ie \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘You won’t be disappointed. 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This is a world populated by characters lost and at odds with the demands of contemporary life, for whom the line separating redemption and madness has grown impossibly fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRazor-sharp social commentary, it is an era-defining work from one of Ireland’s most anarchic satirists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Gospel According to Blindboy\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Mad, wild, hysterical.’ Kevin Barry, author of \u003cem\u003eNight Boat to Tangier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘One of Ireland’s finest and most intelligent comic minds delivers stories so blisteringly funny and sharp your fingers might bleed. In language so delicious you can taste it, we’re shown holy and unholy Ireland: a land of lock-ins, nettle stings, stone-mad Cork birds, gas cunts and Guiney’s jeans. No one is safe – we all have the unmerciful piss ripped out of us and there’s no escape from the emotional gut punches, expertly dealt.’ Tara Flynn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘If you’ve ever witnessed a Rubberbandits video you’ll be anxious (there’s no other word for it) to read this collection of short stories from one of the originators. I hesitate to use the word author as the experience is as close to reading a traditional short story as being burnt by a blow torch. Essential, funny and disturbing.’ Danny Boyle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Demented, dishevelled and deeply surreal – Blindboy Boatclub’s book will shock and delight.’ \u003cem\u003eIrish independent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘It’s not for the faint-hearted.’ Joe.ie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘You won’t be disappointed. 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