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Hughes, Sean
by It's What He Would've Wanted
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0743201590
- ISBN 13
- 9780743201599
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About This Item
New York. 2001. March 2001. Scribner. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0743201590. 291 pages. hardcover. Jacket design & photography by David J. High & Ralph C. Del Pozzo. keywords: Literature Ireland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Sean Hughes is an award-winning Irish comic turned bestselling writer whom the British Independent has compared to the likes of Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, and Will Self. Now, the popular comedian delivers IT'S WHAT HE WOULD'VE WANTED, a brutally funny, highly charged, and moving novel about a directionless thirty-year-old man's belated transition into adulthood. Our narrator and protagonist is Shea Hickson, a commitment-phobic just-turned-thirty-year-old with somewhat adolescent leanings. Shea lives off lottery winnings and spends his time blindly serving a secret organization whose stated duty is to seek truth,' which, though Shea doesn't quite realize it, turns out to be a small-time terrorist gig. Shea's parents appear to be a quintessentially comfortable, suburban middle-class couple, and when sons Shea and Orwell (named after Che Guevara and George, their father having been something of a nostalgic radical) arrive for Christmas Eve, all seems as it should be. But when Shea turns a corner to find his father, a BBC weatherman, hanging from the light fixture, the son's disaffected existence is turned upside down. Worse, Shea's discovery of an encoded journal his father had been keeping uncovers shocking revelations about his father's disappointed life as a parent, husband, and disillusioned minor celebrity. Jolted from his emotional ennui, Shea determines to figure out what drove his father to his death and, in the process of unraveling the Hickson family's increasingly distasteful secrets, comes to better understand himself. With wry humor and savage undercurrents, the story winds through the seamier side of London life - skirting the worlds of television, newspapers, and small-scale urban terrorism. inventory #28748 ISBN: 0743201590.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28748
- Title
- Hughes, Sean
- Author
- It's What He Would've Wanted
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0743201590
- ISBN 13
- 9780743201599
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2001-03
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