ISBN: 0-88739-272-5
300 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 12/2000
Paperback Original
Price: $15.95
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Irish Ice
W. Brian Perry
Justin Flynn, a blue-collar Irish Catholic from the Bronx, arrives late for his own wedding to Manda, a beautiful Spanish immigrant. After a comical brawl at the wedding, a brief and bittersweet honeymoon, and a well-meaning marriage stuck in the starting gate, it becomes clear that Justin Flynn is arriving late to maturity. But once Justin survives an affair and a half, lands a good job, loses the job and his wife and his lover, and confronts his own past along with his misty Irish legacy, the possibility arises that he might just grow up after all.
Review: "Mr. Perry has a gift for examining and illustrating grand themes-filial devotion, romantic love, religious faith, personal heritage. At its most basic, Irish Ice is simply a terrific tale, well told; a good, old-fashioned story, in the best sense of that phrase."
-William Relling, Jr., author of Deadly Vintage
"A rollicking tale of love, loss, and a shot at redemption."
-Tim Wendel, author of Castro's Curveball
Bio: W. BRIAN PERRY, a native New Yorker and an Irish citizen, is a journalist for Reuters. Irish Ice is his first published novel.
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