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Sat 10 Oct 2009Loose leaves
Good day for Power: Bad Day in Blackrockby Kevin Power which won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for 2009 this week, parallels appalling things that happen in our Hibernian world, across the social spectrum, involving young men, sometimes women – and a lot of alcohol.
That’s how one of the selection committee, writer Carlo Gébler, described Power’s debut novel, which revolves around the death of a young man after an attack outside a Dublin nightclub. It was published last year by the Lilliput Press.
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