The Irish Wine Trilogy

by Dick Wimmer

Overview

Three humorous novels chronicle ten years in the lives and fortunes of Irish painter Seamus Boyne; his friend, Long Island pest control expert Gene Hagar; Boyne's wife and Hagar's old love, Ciara; and his estranged teenage daughter, Tory, in an omnibus edition containing Irish Wine, Boyne's Lassie, and the never-before-published Hagar's Dream.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101221587
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/01/2001
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	435 KB

About the Author

Dick Wimmer was a professor of English at Pepperdine University in California. He has written numerous works of fiction, including the Irish Wine Trilogy, as well as screenplays for television and film.

Table of Contents

	Irish Wine	1
	Boyne's Lassie	117
	Hagar's Dream	213

Editorial Reviews

Absorbing and beautifully written.

Anthony Burgess

Wonderfully exuberant. . . . What a gem!

James Carroll

Uncommonly fine.

Malcolm Cowley

A comic trilogy that tacks one new episode onto two reruns, Wimmer's collection—Irish Wine (1988), Boyne's Lassie (1998), and Hagar's Dream—follows the misadventures of wild-man Seamus Boyne (Irish scourge of the British art world) and his timid friend Gene Hagar (a Long Island exterminator with literary ambitions). Boyne, like most bohemians, is always one step or two from utter ruin but never goes completely over the edge—sometimes suicidal (from both his failures and his successes), he has faced the wrath of assassins, faked his own death, rescued his daughter from kidnappers, saved his paintings from a burning gallery, impersonated monks, and stolen girls from his best friend. That friend, of course, is the hapless Hagar, who toils glamorlessly by day in his pest-control business but still finds the time to hop the Atlantic now and then to get Boyne out of some of his messier scrapes—although, in the end, he manages a weird kind of sexual revenge when he steals the heart of Boyne's beautiful daughter Tory. The usual gathering of odd ducks and charming layabouts wander onstage throughout, keeping the pace up whenever the story begins to lag. Good pointless fun, in the tradition of Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth and every other bohemian romp you've ever read.

Kirkus Reviews