Tim MacGabhann in conversation with Declan Toohey
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We are delighted to present the Dublin launch of Saints by Tim MacGabhann, who will be in conversation with Declan Toohey for the occasion. Join us at 6.30pm on Friday 7th November for an evening of conversation as Tim discusses his gripping debut short story collection. Nine breathtaking and oddly sublime tales of narcos, cops and addicts in modern-day Mexico. Gritty hard-boiled tales shot through with the hallowed light of the miraculous, written in MacGabhann’s pyrotechnic exhilarating prose. A constellation of rich, vivacious stories of sewer diving, ghosts, a falling satellite and vengeful pigs.
Admission is free and all are welcome. Please book your place using the form below.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
‘The stories in Saints are wise, sad and electric, gentle and attentive in their depiction of even the most jagged, destructive impulses of the human heart.’
– Colin Barrett
‘This handful of offbeat lives, their vivid Mexican setting, their human light and shade, are so well rendered they offer a sense of special access to other realities. As in life, each story is a wormhole to the next, a connectivity that not only makes a novel of this collection but inflates its reading to four dimensions, with all the discovery that comes from entering a new milieu in person. For me this book does the heavy lifting of literature: more than a good read – it’s a parallel life.’
– D.B.C. Pierre
‘Tim MacGabhann works from an imaginative world that does not rest. His living characters open up their hearts to him, and he reports back to us – a work of sublime devotion to a place and a moment that has been rendered in perfect detail. I go back to these stories long after reading them, and wonder how those people are. It’s a sweet and violent magic, and I remain gladly under its spell.’
– Ben Pester
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Tim MacGabhann is the author of the novels Call Him Mine and How to Be Nowhere, the long poem Rory Gallagher–Live!–from the Hotel of the Dead and the memoir The Black Pool.
Declan Toohey is the author of short story collection, Perpetual Comedown, published by New Island Books in February 2023.
