An Evening of Long Goodbyes : A Novel (Paperback)

from polarbear123

Very enjoyable, funny, tragic and touching in equal measures. Charles is a great character who tries to get a handle on life throughout the book with mostly hilarious consequences. Other characters are varied and interesting too. A cut above your average comedy melodrama.

from alexrichman

Hilarious, weird, uneven, uneventful, mad, great. If you like loquacious flaneurs drinking themselves into a stupour, then you'll probably enjoy this. Not on the level of Skippy Dies, but incredibly enjoyable all the same.

from Floratina

READ IN ENGLISHSkippy Dies was read as a group read on the Dutch forum Ezzulia.nl. I don't think we've ever read a book that caused so much different opinions and discussion. Needless to say, I was very curious to Paul Murray's first book An Evening of Long Goodbyes.Well, it certainly isn't your ...

from Floratina

READ IN ENGLISH Skippy Dies was read as a group read on the Dutch forum Ezzulia.nl. I don't think we've ever read a book that caused so much different opinions and discussion. Needless to say, I was very curious to Paul Murray's first book An Evening of Long Goodbyes. Well, it certainly isn't you...

from jerhogan

Very funny. I laughed aloud at various points. A trawl through Dublin in the Celtic Tiger era from Dalkey to the fictional slum Bonetown. The recruitment agency definitely jogged my memory of the boom times. It kept my interest throughout - there was always a new twist in the plot before interest...