- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Corgi (Feb 15 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1862300879
- ISBN-13: 978-1862300873
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 15.5 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 422 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"Quirky, tragi-comic, bittersweet--a day in the life of a city observed from one man's particular angle, and made all the more poignant because we know that it is going to end in nightmare." --The Times
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January 1967. An ordinary Saturday in the Blue Bar of the International Hotel in Belfast. While 18-year-old Danny pulls pints, he contemplates his future and the bar's varied clientele. But ordinary Saturdays like this are almost over. On the next day the hotel will host the inaugural meeting of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, and the slide towards the troubles will begin.
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His best book: delicate but forthright,
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If Burning Your Own presented the aftermath of the time--a few years earlier--described in The International (which was a real hotel in Belfast)--this novel takes a less frantic approach to revealing the city's soul. Fat Lad tries more obviously to capture the unpredicatability; Number 5, his most recent work, offers a more mature, steadily microcosmic view over the past half-century. Here, in a story based loosely on Peter Ward, in 1966 reckoned the second victim of "the troubles," Patterson limns the sectarian divide and also, more to the point/pint, Belfast's shared joys and sorrows. Sounds predictable and perhaps cliched, yes, but read this, and see how Patterson transcends predictablity. He may not have garnered the attention of Robert MacLiam Wilson with his boisterous louts Ripley Bogle and those from Eureka Street, but Patterson may prove better equipped with the stamina to outlast his brasher competitors Colin Bateman and MacL-W, as his narrative foregoes glitz or shenanigans for a a deeper psychological resonance.
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His best book: delicate but forthright,
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This review is from: The International (Paperback)
If Burning Your Own presented the aftermath of the time--a few years earlier--described in The International (which was a real hotel in Belfast)--this novel takes a less frantic approach to revealing the city's soul. Fat Lad tries more obviously to capture the unpredicatability; Number 5, his most recent work, offers a more mature, steadily microcosmic view over the past half-century. Here, in a story based loosely on Peter Ward, in 1966 reckoned the second victim of "the troubles," Patterson limns the sectarian divide and also, more to the point/pint, Belfast's shared joys and sorrows. Sounds predictable and perhaps cliched, yes, but read this, and see how Patterson transcends predictablity. He may not have garnered the attention of Robert MacLiam Wilson with his boisterous louts Ripley Bogle and those from Eureka Street, but Patterson may prove better equipped with the stamina to outlast his brasher competitors Colin Bateman and MacL-W, as his narrative foregoes glitz or shenanigans for a a deeper psychological resonance.
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