Puckoon
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Puckoon is Spike Milligan's riotous debut novel, a comedic masterpiece set in the fictional Irish village of Puckoon in 1924, just as the newly drawn border between Ireland and Northern Ireland cuts straight through the heart of the town — and its graveyard. With anarchic wit and surreal invention, Milligan chronicles the chaos that ensues for the beleaguered villagers, particularly the hapless Dan Milligan, as bureaucratic absurdity collides with everyday Irish life. The novel breaks every convention of storytelling, with the protagonist famously arguing with his own author about the indignities heaped upon him. Sharp, irreverent, and outrageously funny, it stands as one of the great comic novels of the twentieth century, showcasing the same genius that powered The Goon Show in gloriously unhinged literary form.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Puckoon is Spike Milligan's riotous debut novel, a comedic masterpiece set in the fictional Irish village of Puckoon in 1924, just as the newly drawn border between Ireland and Northern Ireland cuts straight through the heart of the town — and its graveyard. With anarchic wit and surreal invention, Milligan chronicles the chaos that ensues for the beleaguered villagers, particularly the hapless Dan Milligan, as bureaucratic absurdity collides with everyday Irish life. The novel breaks every convention of storytelling, with the protagonist famously arguing with his own author about the indignities heaped upon him. Sharp, irreverent, and outrageously funny, it stands as one of the great comic novels of the twentieth century, showcasing the same genius that powered The Goon Show in gloriously unhinged literary form.
