Eureka Street
  • Published: 8 August 1997
  • ISBN: 9780749396725
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $24.99

Eureka Street

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A novel of Ireland like no other.

Eureka Street is a story of Belfast in the 1990s, six months before and after another ceasefire. It is the story of Chuckie Lurgan, fat, Protestant and poor, who suddenly becomes wealthy by various legal but immoral means; and of Jake Jackson, Catholic reformed tough guy, who has been abandoned by his English girlfriend and is looking for love. Meanwhile the strange letters 'OTG' start appearing on walls and paving stones throughout the city.
  • Published: 8 August 1997
  • ISBN: 9780749396725
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Robert McLiam Wilson

Robert McLiam Wilson was born in Belfast in 1964. Ripley Bogle, his debut, won the Rooney Prize, the Hughes Prize, a Betty Trask Award and the Irish Book Awards. He has written two other novels - Manfred's Pain and Eureka Street - and is also the author of a non-fiction book, The Dispossessed. In 2003, he was named by Granta magazine as one of 20 Best of Young British Novelists.

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Praise for Eureka Street

Stylish, funny, black and memorable

Irish Times

Shocking and reassuring, visceral and alive with the majesty and mystery of the city, Eureka Street cements Wilson's reputation as one of the best writers around

Time Out

A novel of ambitious scope and compelling power; it marks a new level of accomplishment in an already formidable writer

Times Literary Supplement

What is most striking is McLiam Wilson's range: tragedy, comedy, realism, absurdism and refreshing political insight. I am staggered by McLiam Wilson's scope

The Times

A sane, moving and often very funny satire directed against the establishment of terror. In the face of arbitrary, violent death and genocidal conflict, Wilson celebrates humanity...he offers us no solutions, but shows us our best and our worst with a redemptive tenderness and common sense

Scotsman