“A fascinatingly messy knot of signifiers” – The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow by Danny Denton

"The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow is Ballard-meets-Barry (the Boys’ skins, or rain-gear, wouldn’t be out of place in a Bohane fashion-show), with some Ridley Walker and Cormac McCarthy thrown in (the Kid’s badland wanderings) and quite a dollop of Blade Runner (the drenched cityscape, the dodgy cops, the sinister technology); it’s a crime novel (parts of it are narrated in flash-back by an aging policeman), a love story (of sorts: the heroine is dead) and a sci-fi nightmare (everyone’s digitally tagged; everybody’s doomed), and it’s also a riotous finger to a load of Irish clichés..." - Valerie O'Riordan reviews The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow by Danny Denton

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