Post-Modering Bewek

Sloot by Ian Macpherson

Dubling noir, wrote in the stoile of Flann O’Brien. Hil-feckin-larious.

I wonder if you can even understand this book if you’re not from Dubling. The author (Een), a stand-up comic, wonders in and out of the text, notices things the sloot (sleuth), also a stand-up comic, overlooks. Three dementia-infested aged aunts pepper the book with malapropisms. Other characters possibly include a cross-dressing ganglord, a garda pimping for a brothel in leafy-suburban Clontarf, a drunken Joycean pathologist, a faux-academic (guru to Een) on a bicycle and an AA stalker.

Thanks, Richard. A good recommendation.