© Edition Nautilus Verlag Lutz Schulenberg, 2014
A lightning-witted, action-packed caper from second-time Irish novelist Declan Burke, The Big O is ostensibly about a tiger kidnapping gone wrong. However, it also manages to capture the brink-of-the-abyss finality of falling in love along the way very well, with lots of black humour and quirky, loveable characters thrown into the mix. There's Karen, a ballsy plastic surgeon's receptionist, who pulls stick-ups on garages in her down-time; her boss, Frank, who's getting his ex-wife Madge kidnapped in order to collect on the insurance; Karen's psycho ex Rossi, who's just out of prison; and her new love interest Ray, who's a painter/decorator cum 'babysitter'. A multi-layered novel that zips along at a rate of knots, with plenty of laugh-out-loud moments.
Harcourt 2007
Translated into: German
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