Sudden Times (1999)

by Dermot Healy

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Ollie Wing is barely surviving. Back home in Sligo, he collects trolleys in a supermarket car park and lives in a run-down house with a group of art students. He can't escape what has happened in London and is tormented by old fears and regrets. Finally, he decides to confront his demons.

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Terrific staccato writing telling a story, backwards, about an Irishman from Sligo struggling with a return home from the corrupt building trade of 1980s London. The story holds great tension and unfolds slowly and deliberately. Darkly comic and powerfully abrupt. (

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Ollie Wing is barely surviving. Back home in Sligo, he collects trolleys in a supermarket car park and lives in a run-down house with a group of art students. He can't escape what has happened in London and is tormented by old fears and regrets. Finally, he decides to confront his demons.

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