Pete Duffy, the natural heir to John B. Keane and Frank O' Connor and
the people's poet, completes his trilogy in magnificent style with Life is a
Winding Journey. Full of humour and pathos, and packed with zany and
compulsively readable characters, these stories will provide mind-trips to
anyone of a certain age, while younger readers will find no better flavour
of the city anywhere in all of literature. The musicians' ear, is as usual fully
employed, and the voice within these tales is rough-hewn and condensed.
In bringing Cork's bygone era to bristling and visceral life, Pete Duffy has
produced one of the year's undeniable must-reads. A treasure