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It's What He Would've Wanted Hardcover - 2001

by Sean Hughes


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Best known as a stand-up comedian and television star, Sean Hughes has won acclaim with his trademark black comedy. In It's What He Would've Wanted, Hughes combines edgy humor with considerable narrative powers to tell the story of Shea Hickson, whose footloose, disaffected existence is turned upside down when he finds his father, a BBC weatherman, hanging from the light fixture. The Hicksons appear to be a quintessentially comfortable, suburban, middle-class family. But when Shea discovers an encoded journal his father had been keeping, he uncovers shocking revelations about his father's disappointed life as a parent, husband, and disillusioned minor celebrity. With wry humor and savage undercurrents the tale winds through the seamier side of London life -- skirting the worlds of television, newspapers, and small-scale urban terrorism. Ultimately, the unraveling of the Hickson family's increasingly distasteful secrets forces a reluctant Shea to grow up.

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  • Title It's What He Would've Wanted
  • Author Sean Hughes
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition English Language
  • Pages 290
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
  • Date 2001-03
  • ISBN 9780743201599 / 0743201590
  • Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.58 x 6.42 x 1.06 in (24.33 x 16.31 x 2.69 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00047074
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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New York. 2001. March 2001. Scribner. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0743201590. 291 pages. hardcover. Jacket design & photography by David J. High & Ralph C. Del Pozzo. keywords: Literature Ireland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Sean Hughes is an award-winning Irish comic turned bestselling writer whom the British Independent has compared to the likes of Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, and Will Self. Now, the popular comedian delivers IT'S WHAT HE WOULD'VE WANTED, a brutally funny, highly charged, and moving novel about a directionless thirty-year-old man's belated transition into adulthood. Our narrator and protagonist is Shea Hickson, a commitment-phobic just-turned-thirty-year-old with somewhat adolescent leanings. Shea lives off lottery winnings and spends his time blindly serving a secret organization whose stated duty is to ‘seek truth,' which, though Shea doesn't quite realize it, turns out to be a small-time terrorist gig. Shea's parents appear to be a… Read More
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