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Book Launch - Perpetual Comedown by Declan Toohey

Thursday 23rd February 2023
18:00 at Waterstones, Dublin - Hodges Figgis

Perpetual Comedown (Paperback)

Hodges Figgis and New Island Books invite you to the launch of one of this year's most anticipated debut novels; Perpetual Comedown by Declan Toohey.

An unforgettable new voice in Irish fiction, Toohey’s first novel is is a riotous reckoning of the definition of the self.

As a doctoral student at Trinity College Dublin, Darren Walton is trying to decode an elaborate conspiracy he stumbled across as an undergraduate. To do so he must locate an alternate Ireland named Camland, the existence of which is proven when

he discovers a literary journal whose contents mirror his own past. With proof of his wild theories, Darren is sure academic fame is imminent. But for this he is willing to sacrifice not just his sanity and physical safety, but also his relationships with the

ones who love him most. In breathless prose, Declan Toohey weaves a contemporary yarn of academic intrigue and youthful irreverence, sexual

fluidity and neurodiversity. Experimental, trippy, hilarious, compassionate, Perpetual Comedown is a riotous reckoning in the construction of the self.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Declan Toohey was born in Scotland

and grew up in County Kildare. His fiction has

been published in Soft Punk, Channel, and the

anthology Queer Love, among other outlets. In

2021 he was a co-winner of the IWC Novel Fair,

and in 2022 he won the Maeve Binchy Travel

Award and received an Agility Award from

the Arts Council of Ireland. More recently, he

graduated from University College Dublin with

an MFA in Fiction.

Waterstones, Dublin - Hodges Figgis

Thursday 23rd February 2023
18:00

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