Emerald Germs of Ireland

First edition. 8vo., 380 pp. Pale orange cloth boards, lettered in black to spine; russet endpapers.

Signed by Author to title page.

"There is something special about the relationship we all have with our mothers...". McCabe's seventh novel chronicles the increasing dementia of Pat McNab, a middle-aged bachelor son of "Gullytown" in rural Northern Ireland, and a serial alcoholic whose problems only begin when he murders his nagging mother and buries her in the backyard.

Twice short-listed for the Booker Prize – The Butcher Boy in 1992 and Breakfast on Pluto in 1996. "McCabe may well be the lodestone of Irish fiction." –New York Observer