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Ripley Bogle is the debut novel of Northern Irish author Robert McLiam Wilson, published in 1989 in the UK although not until 1998 in the US. ReadingGroupGuides.com – Robert McLiam Wilson interview Written when he was 26 it is arguably his most Read More..

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Description	Ripley Bogle is the debut novel of Northern Irish author Robert McLiam Wilson, published in 1989 in the UK although not until 1998 in the US. ReadingGroupGuides.com – Robert McLiam Wilson interview Written when he was 26 it is arguably his most acclaimed, Robert McLiam Wilson biography winning the Rooney Prize and the Hughes Prize in 1989, and a Betty Trask Award and the Irish Book Awards the following year. Many elements of the novel are autobiographical; the author himself was born in Belfast, attended Cambridge University, dropped out and became homeless. The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction Volume I: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction : McLiam Wilson, Robert by Matthew McGuire It is regarded as a significant novel, producing "both a re-evaluation of Northern Irish literary identity, and an alternative perspective on the Troubles." The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950–2000 by Dominic Head, pages 139–140 Google Books
Description	Ripley Bogle is the debut novel of Northern Irish author Robert McLiam Wilson, published in 1989 in the UK although not until 1998 in the US. ReadingGroupGuides.com – Robert McLiam Wilson interview Written when he was 26 it is arguably his most acclaimed, Robert McLiam Wilson biography winning the Rooney Prize and the Hughes Prize in 1989, and a Betty Trask Award and the Irish Book Awards the following year. Many elements of the novel are autobiographical; the author himself was born in Belfast, attended Cambridge University, dropped out and became homeless. The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction Volume I: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction : McLiam Wilson, Robert by Matthew McGuire It is regarded as a significant novel, producing "both a re-evaluation of Northern Irish literary identity, and an alternative perspective on the Troubles." The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950–2000 by Dominic Head, pages 139–140 Google Books

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Authors	Robert McLiam Wilson
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