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Sat 05 May 2010After the gold rush
CRIME: KEVIN POWERreviews City of Lost GirlsBy Declan Hughes John Murray, 307pp. £12.99
IN FEBRUARY this year the novelist and songwriter Julian Gough posted on his blog what he called “an intemperate rant” about the state of Irish fiction. “I don’t get the impression many Irish writers have played Grand Theft Auto, or bought an X-Box, or watched YouPorn,” he wrote. “Irish literary writers have become a priestly caste, scribbling by candlelight, cut off from the electric current of the culture.”
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