Puckoon

(Paperback)

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Spike Milligan's classic slapstick novel reissued for the first time since it was published in 1963 When the new border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic is being drawn up, the unlucky village of Puckoon finds itself divided between the two - and a mad-cap, slapstick comedy ensues. Featuring one of the laziest protagonists in all of fiction, Spike Milligan's classic novel is bursting with his trademark wit and word-play.

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Bursts at the seams with superb comic characters involved in unbelievably likely troubles on the Irish border * Observer *
Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks * Daily Mail *
Our first comic philosopher -- Eddie Izzard
Milligan is the Great God to all of us -- John Cleese

Author Bio

Spike Milligan (1918-2002) was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Over the course of his astonishing career, he wrote over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.