TY  - BOOK
AU  - McMenamin,Ciarán
TI  - Skintown
SN  - 9781784162733
AV  - PR6113.C5659 S55 2017
U1  - 823.92 23
KW  - Male friendship
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Nineteen nineties
KW  - Drugs
KW  - Subculture
KW  - Northern Ireland
KW  - Young men
KW  - Raves (Parties)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Black humor
N1  - "Vinny Duffy is about to take the trip of a lifetime ..."--Cover
N2  - "We're in the back of a car belonging to the men our mothers told us to never get in the back of a car of. I close my eyes and wonder how many girls will come to my funeral." Vincent Patrick Duffy has already checked out. Trapped between Skintown's narrow horizons, he chops ribs and chickens in a takeaway, dreaming of escape, joint after freshly rolled joint. A mindless act of kindness leads to the unlikeliest of business opportunities. Where the government has failed, might the second summer of love and a little pill with a dove on it be the broom to sweep away the hatred and replace it with love, so much love?
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