Book description
Joseph O'Connor's love affair with all things American led to an
extraordinary tour of the United States to visit the nine different
towns called Dublin, as well as some of the great cities and tiny
hamlets in between. Along the way he wittily deconstructs the legends
of a whole pantheon of Irish American heroes, from John F. Kennedy to
Billy the Kid, and takes a quick detour to finally answer that most
important question: was Elvis really Irish?
The result is a hilarious, poignant and unforgettable book that
celebrates the breathtaking diversity of the Irish influence on
America and actually manages to find a town called Dublin, somewhere
on the planet, that doesn't have one single pub within its limits...
Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. His novels include
Cowboys and Indians
(Whitbread Prize shortlist),
Star of the Sea
(
Irish Post
Award for Fiction, France's Prix Millepages, Prix Madeleine Zepter for
European Novel of the Year),
Redemption Falls,
and
Ghost Light
(Dublin One City One Book Novel, 2011
)
. In 2012 he won the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in
Literature. His work has been published in thirty-five languages.
