Mondo Desperado

From a farmer's romance and his skin condition to one man's culinary relationship with Bruce Lee, "Mondo Desperado" will make you howl with laughter. You wouldn't expect to find a mature woman of twenty-eight years of age mixed up with a bunch of swingers in a small town like Barnrosna. But that's exactly what happened according to Walter Bunyan. And he should know, she was his wife. As for Declan Coyningham - there wasn't a holier boy in all of Barnrosna - you couldn't move in town without finding a bit of him in your path or under a hedge. And what exactly did come over Noreen Tiernan that made her shriek to wake the dead as she left the main street of the village in a Morris Minor all decked in pink and blue? Patrick McCabe was born in 1955. He has published five novels, "Music on Clinton Street" (1986), "Carn" (1989), "The Butcher Boy" (1992) - which was inner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize and made into a highly acclaimed film directed by Neil Jordan - "The Dead School" (1995) and "Breakfast on Pluto" (shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize). He lives in Sligo with his wife and two daughters.