Author | Paul Howard |
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Illustrator | Alan Clarke |
Cover artist | Alan Clarke |
Country | Republic of Ireland |
Language | English |
Series | Ross O'Carroll-Kelly |
Genre | Comic novel, satire |
Publisher | Penguin Books |
Publication date | October 2006 [1] |
Media type | Paperback |
Pages | 304 |
ISBN | 978-1-84488-090-4 |
823.92 | |
Preceded by | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress |
Followed by | This Champagne Mojito Is The Last Thing I Own |
Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade is a 2006 novel by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard, and the sixth in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series. [2]
The title is a reference to coitus interruptus: Sydney Parade is the last DART stop before Sandymount, where Ross lives. Many other such phrases are known, e.g. "getting off at Redfern" (Sydney, Australia); [3] "getting off at Edge Hill" (Liverpool); [4] [5] "getting off at Haymarket" (Edinburgh). [6]
An initial cover design featured a naked Ross holding his "sympathetic pregnancy" bump, a parody of Demi Moore's famous 1991 Vanity Fair cover. Penguin manager Michael McLoughlin vetoed that, and illustrator Alan Clarke produced a new version showing Ross wearing a Leinster Rugby shirt. [7]
Sorcha is pregnant; Ross begins to experience a sympathetic pregnancy. His mother, Fionnuala, becomes a successful chick-lit author, but her realistic depiction of financial crime causes suspicion to fall on his father's affairs. Ross and his friends invest in Lillie's Bordello, a Dublin nightclub. [8]
Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade was the surprise winner of the Galaxy Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards. [9] [10] [11] [12]
It was the best-selling book in Ireland for 2006, selling 39,339 copies. [13]
It was listed among the shortlist of 50 for the Irish Book of the Decade prize for 2000–10. [14]
In her work The Undecidable: Jacques Derrida and Paul Howard, Clare Gorman analysed the relationship between Ross and his mother in the book, noting that "Ross has a pathologically intense relationship with her that he denies and represses by insulting her at every opportunity." [15]
Paul Howard is an Irish journalist, author and comedy writer. He is best known as the creator of the cult character Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, a fictional Dublin 4 "rugby jock".
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Downturn Abbey is a 2013 novel by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard and the thirteenth in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.
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Game of Throw-ins is a 2016 book by Irish author Paul Howard and is the sixteenth novel in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.
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