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Title	:	Eureka Street
Author	:	Robert McLiam Wilson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 396 pages
Published	:	February 22nd 1999 by Ballantine Books (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. European Literature. Irish Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction

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In a city blasted by years of force and fury, but momentarily stilled by a cease-fire, two unlikely friends search for that most human of needs: love. But of course, a night of lust will do. Jake Jackson and Chuckie Lurgan--one Catholic, one Protestant--navigate their sectarian city and their nonsectarian friendship with wit and style. Chuckie, an unemployed dreamer, stumbles into bliss with a beautiful American who lives in Belfast. Jake, a repo man with the soul of a poet, can only manage a hilarious war of insults with a spitfire Republican whose Irish name, properly pronounced, sounds like someone choking. Brilliant, exuberant, and bitingly funny, Eureka Street introduces us to one of the finest young writers to emerge from Ireland in years.

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Original Title:	Eureka Street
ISBN:	0345427130 (ISBN13: 9780345427137)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Belfast, Northern Ireland(United Kingdom)

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A novel or Ireland like no other indeed! A novel like no other too.McLiam Wilson depicts an unabated Belfast after decades of violence and terror through the eyes of two common, hilarious working class men. McLiam Wilson crosses genres throughout as the reader follows the winding paths of the two friends who attempt to live aside of the Troubles and politics which, the author observes, long ago stopped involving the citizens beyond their role as victims of the violence. His sin is perhaps

Eureka Street is a lot of things. It is a story about growing up. Uncharacteristic in that it's main characters are aged 30 instead of 18, it is nonetheless the story of two boys learning how to live with themselves and finding out what really matters in life. It is a story about identity in a setting in which the labels by which we identify ourselves-- Catholic, Protestant, English, Irish, liberal, conservative-- can also condemn us to death. But even more than being a story about two men

4,5/5How does one live in a city scarred by religious riots and terrorist attacks ? Well, just about like anybody else. In Belfast, in the 1990s, Chuckie, Jake and their group of weird friends are going on about their lives, finding and losing jobs, talking about sex and boobs, breaking up and mending up with girlfriends. Anything but being catholic or Protestant. And yet, thats everywhere. Bombs and tags and threats and death. On the tv, on the radio, on the corner of their street. It is a

This book is tough. This book is perfect for people who have this glamorized idea of Northern Ireland during The Troubles. It's like when I read a thriller about 'shit goin' down in the hood', the Bronx or Harlem, I have this instant expectation and visual. I blame the media for giving me unrealistic ideas.I can't warm to any of the characters at all, I want to punch Chuckie and I want to punch Jake too. Especially Jake, the miserable get. And Chuckie...comparing his Mammy to a drooling slug in

I can't say enough about this book. There's a great review by Allan posted last week. Allan grew up in Northern Ireland and lives in Belfast. I come to this book as an outsider, but someone who has visited Northern Ireland half a dozen times, starting back during the height of The Troubles. MacLiam Wilson, the author, loves this city and it comes through constantly in the book. And he loves the people of Belfast. This is from the last page of the book : "The mountain looks flat and grand in the



Tightly written, fast-paced, and compelling. I've read numerous books involving the troubles in Northern Ireland and I am usually left feeling cold and despondent. There is nothing wrong with that as the subject is, well, it conjures up a plethora of emotions. What's different about this book is that the "troubles" rage throughout yet, for the most part, just beneath the surface. This is a human story above all else told by characters who live with the reality of war on a daily basis and the