Having spent the last year flying around the world frittering away his grandfather's inheritance, Tom Iremonger is returning home for Christmas in Dublin. He is intent on having fun. But after a lifetime of hedonism it turns out to be the present that finally catches up with him.

A sort of homecoming

Cremins, Robert

Sceptre

Having spent the last year flying around the world frittering away his grandfather's inheritance, Tom Iremonger is returning home for Christmas in Dublin. He is intent on having fun. But after a lifetime of hedonism it turns out to be the present that finally catches up with him.

Sort of Homecoming

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Coming home for Christmas is a cliché Tom Iremonger hopes to explode. After a six-month "transcontinental lost weekend" spent blowing his grandfather's legacy, Ireland's self-proclaimed Greatest Resource returns to Dublin armed only with his beloved leather jacket, a dwindling supply of Eurocheques, and a truly monstrous ego. Dublin, however, has changed. It seems, in fact, as smoothly sophisticated as Iremonger himself. Shaken, Tom finds himself violating some precious Rules of Cool--collecting for charity, cheating during the Forty-Foot Swim in the frigid Irish Sea, and above all trying (and failing) to win back Mainie Doyle, the urbane and beautiful daughter of a supermarket magnate. As he fights for his spot atop Dublin's trendy new elite, can it be that Iremonger's future is finally catching up with him? A novel of pints and posterboys, ravers and priests, semtex and sensibility, Cremins's hilarious debut―part Less Than Zero, part Look Homeward, Angel―is as much about some very old truths as it is about the new Ireland.

A Sort of Homecoming: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

W.W.Norton&Company

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