Sort of Homecoming

After a six-month transcontinental lost weekend spent blowing his grandfather's legacy Ireland's self-proclaimed Greatest Resource returns to Dublin armed only with his beloved leather jacket a dwindling supply of Eurocheques and a truly monstrous ego. Dublin however has changed. It seems in fact as smoothly sophisticated as Iremonger himself. Shaken Tom finds himself violating some precious Rules of Cool--collecting for charity cheating during the Forty-Foot Swim in the frigid Irish Sea and above all trying (and failing) to win back Mainie Doyle the urbane and beautiful daughter of a supermarket magnate. As he fights for his spot atop Dublin's trendy new elite can it be that Iremonger's future is finally catching up with him? A novel of pints and posterboys ravers and priests semtex and sensibility Cremins's hilarious debut part Less Than Zero part Look Homeward Angel is as much about some very old truths as it is about the new Ireland.