{"product_id":"the-pleasures-of-queueing-9781732009110","title":"The Pleasures of Queueing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A raunchy, gargantuan, irreverent dash through the fields of ripeness and desire, spiced by history with a lightly borne trail of cultural baggage. (Reads like fun).\"\u003cbr\u003e George Szirtes, critic for\u003cem\u003e The Times\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With The Pleasures of Queuing Erik Martiny joins Aidan Higgins, Julian Gough, Kevin Barry, on the more exuberant wing of the Irish comic novel. His is a frothy mix of cosmopolitanism and theologico-sexual intrigue, but echoing with an unmistakable steel behind the ribald laughs.\"\u003cbr\u003e David Wheatley, critic for\u003cem\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of Rooney Prize for Irish Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hilarious and heartfelt in equal measure, Erik Martiny's story of bohemia and bountiful creation has the verve and nerve and verbal inventiveness of early Philip Roth.\"\u003cbr\u003e Lee Jenkins, editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Pleasures of Queuing is an irresistible addition to the distinguished recent annals of the Irish comic novel. The breathless eloquence of Martiny's narrative sweep through the eccentricities of his version of Cork doesn't allow the reader a moment's pause.\"\u003cbr\u003e Bernard O'Donoghue, Oxford University, winner of the Whitbread Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartiny, Erik:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Erik Martiny holds a PhD in contemporary poetry. He teaches literature, art and translation to prep school students at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris. His short stories, reviews and articles have appeared in \u003cem\u003eFjords Review, Frieze, Litro, Times Literary Supplement, The London Magazine, Aesthetica Magazine, The Cambridge Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e and other periodicals. He is the editor of \u003cem\u003eA Companion to Poetic Genre\u003c\/em\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell). He lives with his wife and two sons in Saint-Germain-en- Laye.","brand":"C\u0026r Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50856609284370,"sku":"9781732009110","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_81771028-ea00-4a45-82ad-40cccfef790f.jpg?v=1737508583","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-pleasures-of-queueing-9781732009110","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}