All my cousins moved away, eventually. We were just the dirty Irish, filthy Tims, ignorant Micks, fucking daft Paddies, lower down the pecking order than blacks or dogs. And it kept happening, all over again.
People were getting burned out their houses every day of the week. People were getting shot down in the street. People were getting dragged by the hair along the pavement, bloodied and screaming into army vehicles, I saw it myself, locked up for defending your own neighbourhood.
I looked at the Union Jack and forgive me, son, but all I saw was a swastika. I looked at the red hand of Ulster and to me it was nothing but a blood-soaked Sieg Heil. Not coincidentally, the most successful section of Monument Maker — the one concerning General Gordon — is also pegged to real events.
Unfortunately, he is most interested here in disorienting his readers. Long passages begin with interesting statements that fritter to nothing. Multiple pages are given over to single sentences into which are crushed all dialogue and incidentals. These sentences are punctuated only by commas — three or four words then a comma, a maddeningly repetitive phrase then a comma, until the reader is begging for a full stop.
Eventually, I was seeing only the commas, all other meaning having departed, along with my patience. The final part of the book is incomprehensible. What is far less clear, across all his work, is why he takes such pleasure in the expression of ugly social attitudes. A third, and more elusive, type is unattainable or dead or both. Few of them articulate more than a moan.
If anything, people of colour get it worse than women in these books, dashed and bumped off as stereotypes and easy prey. The unnamed Chinese man in This Is Memorial Device who is immediately bludgeoned to death, apparently for japes, by a flying lump of concrete supposedly too heavy to lift, owns — surprise! The only negro in Belfast. Read More. For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions.
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