Publisher's Synopsis
'Grotesque genius just about sums it up' Marie ClaireMondo Desperado is Patrick McCabe's new offering - not as dark as his previous books it charts the strange goings on in the small town of Barntrosna. Guaranteed laughter on every page - from one man's obsession with Bruce Lee to a farmer's skin condition it is McCabe on form.' [Mondo Desperado] confirms McCabe as a satirist of the highest order, aggressively asserting the right of the author and his subjects to personal reaction . . . watching McCabe throw his weight about is powerful stuff. Mondo Desperado charts his enduring affair with modern Ireland: laughing with it, mimicking all its mannerisms and then, like Noreen Tiernan's irascible lover, pausing to kick it up the arse and shout "Bog-face".'James Harkin, Independent on Sunday'It is little wonder that Patrick McCabe is the best reader of his own fiction you ever heard. The voice in his novels, a narcotic mixture of rural Irish hyperbole and fantastical tongue-in-cheek literariness, is so much his own, and so sprightly and so funny, and so capable of outrageousness. The short stories in this collection are virtuoso McCabe yarn-spinning, imposssible intrusions into tranquil lives'Tim Adams, Observer
