A Sort of Homecoming

A young Irishman has just finished blowing his inheritance on six months of debauchery all over Europe. Now he's home, broke and chastened, to visit his family in Dublin, where he finds that his relatives hate him, his old girlfriend is engaged to another man, and all his friends are thugs. He seeks comfort in drugs, but gradually, as the alternately comic and bitter story reveals, we see that beneath his hipster persona he is a sad, insecure, shy boy whose real passion is literature. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.