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Life and death in 1970s Belfast: For the Good Times, by David Keenan, reviewed

12 January 2019

9:00 AM

12 January 2019

9:00 AM

David Keenan’s debut novel, This is Memorial Device, about a small town in Lanarkshire and its post-punk scene, showed that it wasn’t easy being Iggy Pop in Airdrie. For the Good Times, his second, set in 1970s Belfast, shows that it isn’t easy being a Perry Como-loving one of the boys in the Ardoyne.

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