Orange Rhymes with Everything

by Adrian McKinty

Book Overview

For his first novel, author Adrian McKinty has chosen Northern Ireland's age-old conflict between Protestant and Catholic as his stage and peopled it with two unnamed narrators, a violent Protestant... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688144322
• ISBN13: 9780688144326
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great prose, great novel. McKinty is the best.

McKinty is the best writer of my generation (although I'm a bit younger than him). 'Orange' is a great novel, although it is vastly different from his subsequent novels. McKinty is outstanding, pick up any of his novels. His prose is second to none.

Tremendous book

This is a fully realized literary statement of nihilism, a foreboding read in the best noirish tradition. Yet throughout there's a pervasive sense of unity of all things. Dismissing this as a first novel is a mistake; it is deficient in neither theme or quality of prose. I applaud the author's vision and his commitment to style, something almost completely missing from today's bestsellers. This book is disturbing on many levels and I will be thinking about it for weeks to come. I find that so many authors write two excellent books and then descend to some comfortable formula. In this book McKinty's is an original voice that I emphatically hope he maintains. Now on to the rest of his work...