The Stray Sod Country

The Stray Sod Country
ISBN-10
1408809982
ISBN-13
9781408809983
Category
Fiction
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
2011-09-05
Publisher
A&C Black
Author
Patrick McCabe

Description

A sardonically funny, strangely elegiac novel of a civilised place with a dark heart.

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