Mostly Hero - by Anna Burns (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNER AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MILKMAN

Still eighty-two, still with fifty-seven bullets in her, still dying, and with a blood-trail resembling a post-structuralist anti-principle of a traditional abstracted countercomposition, she was softly cursing and willing herself not to die.

Follow Hero the superhero as he saves the world from villains and falls in love with a femme fatale named Femme Fatale.

Written by Anna Burns before she completed her dazzling Booker-winning novel Milkman, Mostly Hero is a hilarious, witty, hell-raising romp through a world of superheroes.

"This crazy little nugget from the winner of the Booker prize for Milkman is a brutal satire of the superhero phenomenon. It ridicules the mindlessness of violence and the glorification of the same in popular culture, and that with a touch of feminism." ***** reader review

"Out of the ordinary, extraordinary. This is unlike anything." ***** reader review

"SOOOO WEIRD. SOOOO CRAZY. SOOOO BRILLIANT" ***** reader review

Review Quotes

"Those who stick with Anna Burns' hectic, stream-of-consciousness writing, not dissimilar to that of Eimear McBride or Flann O'Brien, are more than rewarded. Her writing has been described as 'point-blank poetry, ' and rightly so." - Irish Independent

"Anna Burns is part of a movement of new and established female Belfast writers." - Adrian McKinty, Irish Times