I feel quite similarly to this book that I did to James Kelman’s book How Late it Was How Late, but that this one is significantly better for a few ways. If you haven’t read this one, it’s spiritually connected to Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy — The Commitments, The Snapper, and The Van — in that it takes place in Barrytown, but it’s mostly inside the mind/experience of a 12 year old boy in the 1960s/1970s or so. It’s a bit stream of consciousness and […]