The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney is a dark, gritty novel set in Cork, Ireland, exploring the lives of various characters involved in organized crime, drug dealing, murder, and prostitution. The story revolves around an accidental murder that intertwines the lives of these characters, showcasing a slice of life filled with desperation, despair, and bleak existence. The author's writing style is raw and real, painting a vivid picture of a seamy side of Cork with well-drawn characters and a web of entanglements among them.
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Content warnings include drug use, violence, abuse, and themes of murder.
Has Romance?
There are romantic elements, particularly involving the younger characters Ryan and Karine, though the relationships are troubled.
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Winner of the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott Prize
Shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Irish Book Awards
Longlisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize
The Irish Times March Book of the Month
From Lisa McInerney, hailed by The Irish Times as "arguably the most talented writer at work in Ireland today," comes The Glorious Heresies, a searing debut novel about life on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society.
When grandmother Maureen Phelan is surprised in her home by a stranger, she clubs the intruder with a Holy Stone. The consequences of this unplanned murder connect four misfits struggling against their meager circumstances. Ryan is a fifteen-year-old drug dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father, Tony, whose feud with his next-door neighbor threatens to ruin his family. Georgie is a sex worker who half-heartedly joins a born-again movement to escape her profession and drug habit. And Jimmy Phelan, the most fearsome gangster in the city and Maureen's estranged son, finds that his mother's bizarre attempts at redemption threaten his entire organization.
Biting and darkly funny, The Glorious Heresies presents an unforgettable vision of a city plagued by poverty and exploitation, where salvation still awaits in the most unexpected places.
- New York Time's Book Review's "10 Best Crime Novels" of the year
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Lisa McInerney's first novel, The Glorious Heresies, won the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott Prize, was shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Irish Book Awards, and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her short stories have…
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