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GLORIOUS EXPLOITS by Ferdia Lennon (Fig Tree €15.99, 288pp) AMONG the hottest debuts of the year, this is indeed a glorious endeavour. The time is 412BC, the place Sicily, and our hero, Lampo, a 30-something unemployed potter who lives with his ma and whose Irishaccented banter is as hilarious as it is unlikely (or perhaps not — Lennon himself is Dublin-born). Following their unsuccessful invasion of the island, hoards of defeated Athenians have been consigned to a rat-infested quarry to rot under the merciless sun. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
