How do we love thee, Patrick Shawn Bagley (right)? Let us count the ways … Well, for starters there’s the fact that he runs an interweb yokeybus called Hillbillies and Hitmen. And is a self-confessed ‘Fat bastard and white-trash raconteur’. But mainly we’re loving the hup-ya he gave our humble offering, THE BIG O, on the aforementioned H&H. To wit: “Belated thanks to the family Jordan for sending me a free copy of Declan Burke’s second novel, THE BIG O, a few weeks ago.A thumbs-up from the white-trash hillbilly demographic? Criminy, we’d better retire now. Like, how could it possibly get any better?It’s one hell of a read, with a plot that never slows down long enough for the reader to take a breath. Had Dutch Leonard been born in Sligo, he might have written something like this. I have a new writer to add to my list of favourites.”
does he play DUELLING BANJOS ?
ReplyDeleteSecond thoughts don't ask him, he's tooooooooooo scaaaarrreeeeyy
You know you've arrived when hicks are reading your stuff. I'm telling all my friends to spend their week's scratch-ticket money for copies of THE BIG O instead.
ReplyDeleteDo I play DUELLING BANJOS? Only on Valentine's Day.
LOL........how romantic!
ReplyDeletePatrick? Don't diss the hicks - I'm from the northwest of Ireland. Solidarity, brothers ... Colman? You're kidding no one with the Duelling Banjos carry-on - we know you've an accordion stashed in the attic. Although, in saying that, the definition of a gentleman is a man who can play the accordion, and doesn't ...
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