Here Are the Young Men

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NOW A MAJOR FILM STREAMING ON ALL PLATFORMS, STARRING ANYA TAYLOR JOY SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 'NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR' AWARD CHOSEN AS ONE OF 'IRELAND'S 20 GREATEST NOVELS SINCE 1916' BY HOT PRESS MAGAZINE Meet Matthew, Rez, Cocker and Kearney. Facing the void of their post-school lives, the boys spend their first summer of freedom in a savage apprenticeship on the streets of Dublin. Roaming aimlessly through the city, fuelled by drugs and dark fantasies, the teenagers spiral into self-destruction, fleeing a reality they despise. Here Are the Young Men portrays a chilling spiritual fallout, harbinger of the collapse of a national illusion. Visceral and blackly funny, this debut novel marks the arrival of a powerful literary talent who releases an unnerving anarchic energy to devastating effect.

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For sheer bravery and for style, for its integrity of vision and for its uncompromising tone, I also admired Rob Doyles Here Are The Young Men * Colm Toibin, Irish Times Books of the Year *
A powerful, passionate and electrifying novel. Many writers try to recreate the traumas and anxieties of teenage years in fiction but very few manage it with as much conviction as Rob Doyle * John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas *
A fine debut. It shines a light into a relatively unexplored region: the psyches of youth adrift in a world where old verities no longer exist ... A rollicking good read. God may be dead, but a new literary star is born * Sunday Times *
The language is unflinching, the story uncompromising A powerful and provocative novel and easily the most honest account of young Irish people for many years * Guardian *
A dark and intoxicating debut * Irish Independent *
A lament for the blank generation, the literary equivalent of the song from which it takes its name, Joy Divisions Decades a powerful debut, maybe the first novel since Kevin Powers Bad Day in Blackrock to interrogate the dark side of the young Irish males psyche * Irish Times *
A portrait of a jilted generation a brilliant Dublin novel and an exercise in honesty * Sunday Times *
Matthew, the angsty Dublin protagonist of this impressive debut, exemplifies a teenage malaise of worry, hedonism and burgeoning sexual inadequacy Doyle is excellent at depicting the dangers of drugs on young minds and the ways first-person video games, internet porn, snuff films and booze can fertilise latent personality disorders * Metro *
Its been dubbed the Irish Trainspotting, making a statement about disillusioned and disaffected young people. A new voice to watch * Woman's Way *
Unblinking depiction of male desperation * James Kidd, Independent Debuts of the Year *

Author Bio

Rob Doyle was born in Dublin and holds a first-class honours degree in Philosophy and an MPhil in Psychoanalysis from Trinity College Dublin. Rob Doyles widely acclaimed first novel, Here Are the Young Men, was published in 2014 by Bloomsbury and the Lilliput Press. It was chosen as a book of the year by the Irish Times, Independent, Sunday Times and Sunday Business Post, and was shortlisted in the Best Newcomer category for the Bord Gis Irish Book Awards. It was also named as one Ireland's twenty greatest novels since 1916 by Hot Press magazine. Robs fiction, essays and criticism have been published in many newspapers and journals. He currently lives in Paris.