© Edizioni E/O, 2010
Author Lorcan Roche once lived in New York City, where he was companion to a young man with muscular dystrophy. His novel picks up this thread and spins it into a story of obsession and control in which the dynamics of love and patience are tested to breaking point and beyond. Upbeat, defiant, dark and morally ambiguous, The Companion sifts through family secrets and lies, and discloses the survival codes of Manhattan. This Irish take on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest develops into one of those rare, perversely elegiac novels that lodge in the mind, long after the last page has been turned.
Lilliput Press 2007
Translated into: Italian
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