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Coming home for Christmas is a cliche Tom Iremonger hopes to explode. 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 soon finds himself violating some precious Rules of Cool - collecting for charity, cheating during the Forty-Foot Swim in the frigid Irish Sea, and trying (and failing) to win back Mainie Doyle, the urbane and beautiful daughter of a supermarket magnate. As he fights for a 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, Robert Cremins's hilarious debut is part Less Than Zero, part Look Homeward, Angel - and possibly the first novel in the history of Irish literature about materialistic excess.
