Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured Irish novels of the last decad
e, "An Evening of Long Goodbyes" is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and
the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. Featuring drinking, greyhound
racing, vanishing furniture, more drinking, old movies, assorted Dublin lowlife,
eviction and the perils of community theatre, Paul Murray's debut novel is a to
ur de force of comedic writing wrapped in an honest-to-goodness tale of a man -
and a family - living in denial...
