Of course this is Belfast during the Troubles so violence intrudes shockingly: modest dreams are no defence against buffoons with guns and bombs intent on putting the world to rights. The result is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read as it details Jake’s efforts to recover from a broken heart and Chuckie’s efforts to become rich. Hence this involves drinking, chasing girls and trying to make a living. Rather the book is about ordinary young people trying to live ordinary lives in Belfast in the early 90s. Such friendships are commonplace in Belfast as elsewhere. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson. There is no heavy handed nonsense about friendship across the barricades in the book.
One is Protestant and the other Catholic, but this is incidental. Rather Eureka Street reminded me of some of the classic “buddy” movies, like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with its shifts between high comedy and brutally realistic violence and its focus at core on the friendship between Chuckie and Jake. I think someone has described this book as “the Irish War and Peace… with better jokes than Tolstoy”. Eureka Street: A Novel of Ireland Like No Other by Robert McLiam Wilson and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. In the end I had to take an afternoon off work to finish it I was so gripped. I had no expectations of the book and began reading it really only because a friend had given it to me. The book was later republished in 1997 in the US, under Arcadia publishing house. I started reading Eureka Street one evening when I was working in Angola. Eureka Street is a novel written by Irish author Robert McLiam Wilson, and was published in 1996 by Secker & Warburg.
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