{"product_id":"for-the-good-times-1","title":"For The Good Times","description":"Review\n\nOutstanding: phantasmagoric, high-octane, hilarious and horrific. -- Wendy Erskine ― Irish Times Books of the Year\n\nA gasp-inducing thrill of a ride. ― i independent\n\nAn exhilarating novel, burning with rage, danger and dark humour. ― Literary Review\n\nRemarkable . . . demented brilliance. ― Scotland on Sunday\n\nFantastic . . . Keenan crawls inside history, heading straight to the heart of darkness . . . An extraordinary tale. -- Suzanne Moore ― New Statesman\n\nThis is visionary fiction, occult in intent, brilliant in execution. -- Eoin McNamee ― Irish Times\n\nA frenzy of Scorsesean gore, paranoia and debasement with a surrealist edge . . . in practically every crackling line of tough, trippy and guiltily laugh-out-loud funny prose. ― Scotsman\n\nBrilliant . . . One of the most strikingly written novels I have read for a long time. ― Sunday Times\n\nStayed with me since I read it . . . a journey into the shattered sound of the voices of damned males hollowing from a bottomless well ― New Statesman 'Books of the Year'\n\nProduct Description\n\nWINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD 2020\n\nFrom the author of This Is Memorial Device.\n\n'A gasp-inducing thrill of a ride.' i Independent\n\n'An exhilarating novel, burning with rage, danger and dark humour.' Literary Review\n\n'Remarkable . . . demented brilliance.' Scotland on Sunday\n\nBelfast, 1970s: Sammy and his three friends live in an impoverished area of the city that has become the epicentre of a country seemingly intent on cannibalising itself. They love sharp clothes, a good drink, and the songs of Perry Como, whose commitment to clean living holds up a dissonant mirror to their own attempts to rise above their circumstances. They dream of a Free State, and their methods for achieving this are uncompromising. But For the Good Times is not just a novel about the IRA. It is about the heartbreak and devastation that commitment to 'the cause' can bring; of violence and betrayal, breakdown and rebirth.\n\nBook Description\n\nAward-winning author David Keenan's second novel plunges the reader into the dark night of Belfast in the 1970s: an era of military terror and sectarian violence, of occult visions and religious intensity.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nDavid Keenan is the author of England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underworld and a senior critic on The Wire.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40391206502485,"sku":"9780571340521N","price":5.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/9a98c78c-ee96-488a-8146-b5db61aac33e.jpg?v=1666601488","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/for-the-good-times-1","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}