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GALLOWS
John Arden, now entering his 80th year, has produced another glorious collection of stories. Gallows and Other Tales of Suspicion and Obession mingles black comedy with melodrama to probe the underside of Irish and English history from the 17th century to the 21st. The title-piece is a ghost story set in contemporary Galway: a nightmare of ghastly slaughter resurfacing from the era of the Penal Laws.
This book is accompanied by a DVD of a short documentary of Arden talking about his influences, and about his own illustrations of episodes in Gallows; filmed and produced by his son Finn Arden.
Praise for Gallows:
'Hilarious, entertaining, page-turning, fascinating and almost any other quality you might fancy in a damned good read.'
Harry Browne, The Sunday Times
'Tales from a raging pen ... Aside from its sheer size, unusual for a series of stories, this book is an event.'
John Kenny, The Irish Times
'Arden remains the complete package ... There's no one who can hold a candle to his hilarious imagination which explodes like "a blast of foul air from an abruptly unblocked drain."'
Alfred Hickling, The Guardian
In order to make Gallows readily available to John Arden’s many admirers in Britain, Spokesman has ordered stock from the Irish publishers (Original Writing) for sale through its website.
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