New fiction and memoir by James Roseman, Tom MacDonagh and Seamus O’Rourke includes a book that deserves a place among the classics
Seamus O’Rourke: In Leaning on Gates the Leitrim writer and actor casts a wry, thoughtful, compassionate and humorous eye on his young adulthoodand follows the romance between Aaron, a Jewish-American mourning the loss of his brother, and Roisin, an Irish expat overstaying her visa. The characters are relatable, with Aaron and Roisin facing struggles many will recognise.
The idea, I suppose, is to reflect the deadening effects of late-stage capitalism, a style that has become ubiquitous in contemporaryNew books: Placeholders by James Roseman, Leaning on Gates by Seamus O’Rourke and The Long Look Back by Tom MacDonaghcould not be read: “My own reality was so severe. Reading about it was a luxury I could not afford.” Childhood in, schooling at “Synger”, “cut knees, falls, terror, ignorance, the constant fear of not making the grade”. Teenage TB.
It deserves a place among the classics – The Outsiders, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, The Grass Arena. A work of literature.In this, his second memoir, O’Rourke resumes his story when he was 18, with the “gobshite” 1980s decade ahead and him in Leitrim of “no love or contraception – only ones coming out from Confession”.
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