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Duck - Des Dillon

 
Description: ISBN 0747267073 / Author: Des Dillon / Mick Riley, husband, father and unreconstructed nineties man, is suffering from a delusion - he ... more
Duck - Des Dillon ... thinks life will improve if he runs off to Blackpool with the babysitter. But fun with the alluring Carmen does not solve the pain in his head.

Newest Review: ... acquaintances. I'm sure we have all come across them, in different settings, with differing accents, but similar psyche. ... more

 ... I know them in passing, but Des Dillon has lived it. He knows the Mick Reilly's of the world from the inside, he knows w hat makes them tick, he's been there, I know for a fact he has. He'll let you get to know them too. The actual details of the story aren't too important, although there is some very clever writing involved. A brief synopsis: Mick Reilly runs off to Blackpool with the sixteen-year-old babysitter, ...more

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Crowned Review Duck - Des Dillon: Eider good idea for a title, but I used this instead (1241 words)
by - written on 09/01/02
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Ah'm goanae write this opinion the way ah would say it. Ah'll be usin words that ye might no know, but ah've gottae dae that. That's the way Des Dillon writes it, so if ye struggle wi this opinion ye'll struggle wi 'Duck' an a'. But if ye can git yer heid roon this opinion ye'll huv nae bother readin oor Des's best work. If this first paragraph's startit'ae bug ye a'ready then jist forget a' aboot 'Duck' - ah'm sure ye'll no want tae read it. I was of course kidding, I'm not going to do the whole opinion in dialect - I wouldn't be so cruel to the, umm, "nationalistically ...  Read the complete review

 

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