Book description
The San Francisco Chronicle declared him "one of the most
brilliant writers to ever come out of Ireland," and Neil Jordan
called
Winterwood
"the most terrifying book I've ever read." In this chilling
and unforgettable novel, Patrick McCabe shows us that nothing-and no
one-is ever quite what they seem. Shortlisted for the Irish Book Award
for Novel of the Year, Winterwood
is a disturbing tale of love, death, and identity from a masterful
novelist whose "books are skillful exercises in the macabre and the
horrific. It is as though Stephen King had learned how to write"
(New York Review of Books
). his books dissect life's miseries with a gleaming comedic scalpel'
Patrick McCabe was born in Ireland in 1955. His novels
include The Butcher Boy, winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus
Literature Prize, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize and
made into a highly acclaimed film directed by Neil Jordan, and
Breakfast On Pluto, published in 1998, also on the Booker
Prize shortlist. He lives in Sligo with his wife and two daughters.
