Alan Glynn Paradime
Three Voices
Alan Glynn Paradime
With Robert J . E . Simpson
Crescent Arts Centre Thursday 9 June – 1.15-2.15pm Tickets : £ 7 ( Incl . light Lunch )/£ 5 ( Event Only )
After a stint as a private contractor in Afghanistan , Danny Lynch is back in New York . But nothing ’ s easy . Work is hard to find and his girlfriend owes more than $ 30,000 in student loans . Danny is also haunted by something he witnessed at the base - a fact that could ultimately destroy him .
Then he spots Teddy Trager , tech visionary and billionaire . These two men couldn ’ t be more different - except for one thing : in appearance , they ’ re identical .
Danny becomes obsessed with Trager , and before long this member of the ninety-nine per cent is passing undetected into the gilded realm of the one per cent .
Alan Glynn ’ s first novel , The Dark Fields , was published in 2002 and later filmed as
Limitless with Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro . Winterland ( 2009 ) was followed in 2011 by the Edgar-nominated Bloodland . The third in this ‘ globalisation noir ’ trilogy ,
Graveland , was published in 2013 .
Three Voices
Eleanor Hooker , Trevor Conway & Mel McMahon With Kate Newmann
Crescent Arts Centre Thursday 9 June – 5-6pm Tickets : £ 6 /£ 4
Eleanor Hooker ’ s debut collection , The Shadow Owner ’ s Companion was shortlisted for the Strong / Shine Award , for Best First Irish Collection . Her poetry ’ s been published in journals internationally and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize ( 2014 ) and a Forward Prize ( 2014 , 2016 ). In 2016 she won the Bare Fiction Flash Fiction prize .
Trevor Conway , from Sligo , writes poetry , fiction , songs , book reviews , drama and film scripts and has released an album titled Morning Zoo . He has an MA in Writing from NUI Galway , and has been a featured reader at Galway ’ s Over the Edge series , Tuam Arts Festival and Cork ’ s O Bhéal series . His work has appeared internationally .
Mel McMahon co-founded the Abbey Press in 1997 with Adrian Rice . His work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies and has been broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster . He has been short-listed for the Beehive International Poetry Prize and was a prize winner in the FSNI International Poetry Competition ( 2015 ).
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