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  • Published: 15 July 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099450269
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $24.99

Welcome To Coolsville





Set in a horribly plausible dystopian Ireland, Welcome to Coolsville is a fast, funny, and utterly original novel from a formidable new talent.

Nine days is a long time in Coolsville. More than enough time for Dr. Kiely Flanagan to shop business mogul J.P. Gillespie to a scandal-hungry media, collect the bounty and split for the sun. Time enough, Marshall McLemon hopes, to secure the backing he needs for his online museum exhibit, getting him - work wise at any rate - out of boresville and into something real.

Papa Charlie McCormack is racing against the clock to discover if Sister Jasmine Ylang-Ylang is the type of nun that goes in for celibacy or not, and the directors of the WentWest Inc, are anxious to see an end to the year-long plague visited upon them by the cyber-terror organisation known as Mantra.

Whether any of them succeed is something else, as one thing depends on the other in this finely balanced, gripping and often hilarious satire.

  • Published: 15 July 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099450269
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Jason Mordaunt

Jason Mordaunt was born in Dublin, where he lives and works.

Praise for Welcome To Coolsville

A remarkable debut that is fizzing with ideas...Mordaunt's arrival is something to celebrate

Irish Independent

This book is wild and wonderful, and unlike any other Irish book I've read

Roddy Doyle

A high-wire piece of plotting and a whole lot of fun

Arena

Airborne from the very first page... Handles his oddball characters with great comic aplomb

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