Ken Bruen

Book Review: Ken Bruen’s “A Galway Epiphany” — A Vision of Exhaustion

Jack Taylor’s awareness of his own depleted condition is part of A Galway Epiphany’s Beckett-infused drama.

Jack Taylor has always been a version of the reluctant detective, but now he seems more impotent than ever — distracted, beat down, and very tired.

Jack Taylor’s world is very much our world and his despair is our despair.

Jack Taylor is a Beckettian character on the skids; he can’t go on, and yet he goes on.

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