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Title	:	Eureka Street
Author	:	Robert McLiam Wilson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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

Eureka Street

Robert McLiam Wilson

Paperback | Pages: 396 pages

Rating: 4.18 | 2956 Users | 254 Reviews

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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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"All stories are love stories" is the first sentence of this book. It's not a love story in the traditional sense but a delicious tribute to the city of Belfast. In Chapter 10, McClaim Wilson writes, "cities are the meeting places of stories" and that is exactly what this book is about. Set in the mid 1990's, when the "troubles" of Norther Ireland were at a fevered pitch, Jake, a rough and tumble Catholic, and Chuckie, a fat Protestant boy with big dreams, are friends. As they grope their way

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

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

Jake and Chuckie are friends, living their everyday lives during the chaos of the "troubles" of the late nineties, just looking for love, and loving their city of Belfast. Wonderfully written and educational (for those like me, who know next to nothing about that time).

Somewhere in South Belfast, Robert McLiam Wilson tells the story of a single man in his early thirties dealing with dating and segregation, poetry and war, family and violence, with the ghost of Van Morrison and the smell of cheap beer in the background. This is an ode to Belfast The Great and the music of whatever floats through your mind when the ideological fight is not what you want for your life. Poetry Street has never been closer to his lyricism.

A laugh outloud story of men in Ireland. One I need to read again.