Here Are the Young Men

Meet Matthew, Rez, Cocker, and Kearney. They've just finished school, and are facing the great void of the future, celebrating their freedom in this unpromising adult reality with self-obliteration. They roam through Dublin, their only aims the next drink, the next high, and a callow, fearful idea of sex. Kearney, in particular, pushes boundaries in a way that once made him a leader in the group, but increasingly an object of fear. When a trip to the U.S. turns Kearney's violent fantasies ever darker, the other boys are forced to face both the violence within themselves and the limits of their own indifference.

Here Are the Young Men portrays a spiritual fallout, harbinger of the collapse of national illusion in "Celtic Tiger" Ireland. Visceral and chilling, this debut novel marks the arrival of a formidable literary talent, channeling an unnerving anarchic energy to devastating effect.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 06/16/2015
ISBN: 9781632861900
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/13/2015
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2015
Library Journal 06/01/2015 pg. 85