Beschreibung:
GLENN PATTERSON was born in Belfast. He is the author of seven acclaimed novels: Burning Your Own (1988), which won the Rooney Prize and a Betty Trask First Novel Prize; Fat Lad (1992); Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain (1995); The International (1999); Number 5 (2003); That Which Was (2004); and The Third Party (2007). A collection of his journalistic writings, Lapsed Protestant, was published in 2006. He teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at Queen's University Belfast and is a member of Aosdana.
Hailed by Anne Enright as 'the best book about The Troubles ever written', this novel by Glenn Patterson - the Bafta-nominated writer behind the Good Vibrations film - spans three decades of Belfast history and is regarded by many as one of the finest Ulster novels ever written.