An Anthology of Fresh Irish Fiction.
'Shenanigans' is a collection of darkly humorous tales from the wrong side of midnight - nineteen stories from young Irish writers who shun Ireland's traditional literary topics in favour of the surreal and the deviant.
From Tipperary to Belfast, Galway to Trim, strange things happen when the sun goes down. There are internet criminals, lunatic politicians, video diarists, grave robbers and amateur semen couriers. There are long nights in Mountjoy Prison, sleepless obsessions with LUDO and sexual encounters at the dry cleaners. An Orangeman's prize pig is mysteriously kidnapped. The baby Jesus is stolen from the cathedral's stained glass window. And a man chips the nail polish off his wife's toes to find out whether she has been abducted by aliens . . .
'Shenanigans' takes the bizarre, sadistic humour of joyce and Beckett into the nineties. It is Irish fiction from a generation with a different set of rules.
