An Iceman at the Pen & Pencil; Hugo Hamilton's eight honourable gobshites
The author is Anthony Bruno, the book is The Iceman, the stars include Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, and Ray Liotta, and you can watch a trailer here.
When not imbibing Hollywood glamour at third hand, I began reading Hugo Hamilton's 1997 novel Headbanger. The book is a bit literary in its opening pages, by which I mean that Hamilton strains to draw parallels among crooks, cops, and civilians. But it's hard not to love a novel that includes a bit like the following:
© Peter Rozovsky 2013"`Embibing Emporium' was another Dublin idiosyncrasy that sprang to mind. As a Garda, Coyne took an interest in the precision of language, and one of these days he would walk straight into that pub, slap a concise Oxford down on the bar counter and say: you pack of eight honourable gobshites, you can't even fucking spell. Look, it's I, not E. Imbibing."
Labels: Anthony Bruno, Dublin, Hugo Hamilton, Ireland, movies, Pen and Pencil Club
posted by Peter Rozovsky at 11:52 PM
4 Comments:
I noticed this book in our 'to be shelved' area today. Without looking closer, I thought it was true crime.
Seana, do you mean The Iceman? It is true crime, though Anthony Bruno has written a number of crime novels. It might be worthwhile to shelve this one both in true crime and in crime fiction.
Yes, that's what I originally thought. I suppose the movie is fairly fictionalized, though, so it will be hard to figure out just where to put it. Oh, well, it will probably be fine to just put it out where people can see the movie cover.
I haven't looked at the book yet, but I suspect that, given the author's background as a novelist, it will appeal to crime fiction readers. Shelve it with crime fiction, with true crime, with movie tie-ins, with new books, on table up front where people can see it ... It's nice to think that a book might appeal to various audiences. Nice, too, to support a fellow member of the P&P.
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