The Spoons Murder and Other Mysteries

Author:   Con O'Drisceoil
Publisher:   Checkpoint Press
ISBN:  

9781906628598


Pages:   96
Publication Date:   01 June 2013
Format:   Paperback
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For the first time, and now in softcover edition, the general public can enjoy what has up to now been a treat available only to the few - the comic songs of Con O Drisceoil. For the past couple of decades these songs have been passed around and savoured by those who delight in the pleasures of improbable stories and witty verse. Several have been recorded by Jimmy Crowley, Rosie Stewart and others, and some of them have become modern 'folk songs', having entered the living tradition and being transmitted from singer to singer. Here you will find many intriguing tales: the birthday cake with extraordinary properties; the cockroach who debates nice points of philosophy with his victim; the awful fate of the man who rattled his spoons once too often, and many more. The author's capacity for creating bizarre situations is matched by his ability to capture them, as he himself remarks, ""in flawless rhyme"" and ""in a metre without blemishes""! A genuinely funny and captivating collection, both as sing-along folk songs or as stand-alone stories and comic verse.

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Author:   Con O'Drisceoil
Publisher:   Checkpoint Press
Imprint:   Checkpoint Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.161kg
ISBN:  

9781906628598


ISBN 10:   1906628599
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   01 June 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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