O'Connor, Joseph (editor)

New York. 2001. June 2001. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Faded Dustjacket . 0375412972. The authors: Roddy Doyle, Conor McPherson, Gene Kerrigan, Gina Moxley, Marian Keyes, Anthony Cronin, Owen O'Neill, Hugo Hamilton, Joseph O'Connor, Tom Humphries, Pauline McLynn, Charlie O'Neill, Donal O'Kelly, Gerard Stembridge, & Frank McCourt. 259 pages. hardcover. Cover: Chip Kidd. keywords: Literature Ireland Mystery. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 'I think he was dead before I shot him.' With these auspicious words begins a murder mystery so utterly unlike any other that it took fifteen of Ireland's finest writers (working well below their peak) to bring it to its unlikely conclusion. The plot involves a mad search for the only manuscript of an unpublished novel by James Joyce, and features a stellar cast--including a sadistic sergeant with the unlikely name of Andy Andrews and the unforgettable mob boss Mrs. Bloom, a woman 'who had tried everything but drew the line at honesty.' Raucous, raunchy, gratuitously violent and completely hilarious, Yeats Is Dead! is a diabolically entertaining mulligan stew of a novel. James Joyce would be proud. inventory #33078 ISBN: 0375412972.