July 2010 Debut of the Month.
This is not a who-dunit but a why and how. It concerns the death of a teenager outside a Dublin night club. What makes this special is the dissection of all involved for this is no gangland or deprived youth crime but one perpetrated by privileged private school boys. Probing the affected families and their society is masterfully done. An impressive first novel.
Comparison: Neil Cross, Jo-Anne Goodwin, Chris Cleave.
On a late August night a young man is kicked to death outside a Dublin nightclub and celebration turns to devastation. The reverberations of that event, its genesis and aftermath, is the subject of this extraordinary story, stripping away the veneer of a generation of Celtic cubs, whose social and sexual mores are chronicled and dissected in this tract for our times. The victim, Conor Harris, his killers - three of them are charged with manslaughter - and the trial judge share common childhoods and schooling in the privileged echelons of south Dublin suburbia.
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On a late August night a young man is kicked to death outside a Dublin nightclub and celebration turns to devastation. The reverberations of that event, its genesis and aftermath, is the subject of this extraordinary story, stripping away the veneer of a generation of Celtic cubs, whose social and sexual mores are chronicled and dissected in this tract for our times.
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Bad Day in Blackrock was written by Kevin Power and published by Pocket Books an imprint of Simon & Schuster Ltd
