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The Companion tells a story of obsession and control in which the dynamics of love and patience are tested to breaking point and beyond. Upbeat, defiant, dark, and morally ambiguous, it sifts through family secrets and lies, and discloses the survival codes of Manhattan. This Irish take on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest develops into one of those rare, perversely elegiac novels that lodge in the mind long after the last page has been turned. Lorcan Roche, born 1963, is an award-winning journalist and playwright, travel-writer and lecturer. He once lived in New York City, where he was companion to a young man with muscular dystrophy. He lives in Dublin.
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LORCAN ROCHE emigrated to New York in the 1980s and worked for a year as a male nurse, then for a further two years as a travel-writer with the Reader's Digest-owned 'Travel Holiday' magazine. On return, he worked as a news reporter, advertising copy-writer, magazine editor and university lecturer. He has written award-winning plays for radio ('Angel of Suburbia' - BBC and RTE - 1998, 1999) and stage that include 'Him and Her' (2000 - Andrew's Lane theatre and Focus Studio), 'Whatever Happened to Joe Magill' (2001 - Bewley's Cafe theatre and Focus) and 'The Old Fella' (2001-Focus). He is currently working on his first full-length film script.
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Irish playwright and journalist Roche debuts with the hilarious and heartbreaking tale of a Dubliner who takes a job helping a teenage boy suffering from muscular dystrophy on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Trevor, the black sheep in a family of academics, has dropped out of film school and left Ireland after his mother's death. Awash in the chaos of Manhattan, he answers an ad to care for Ed, the wheelchair-bound, teenage son of a sedentary, morbidly obese mother and an emotionally stunted judge. Trevor's world is filled with lies and fantasies, but as his relationship with Ed evolves from caretaker to companion, and Ed's condition worsens, Trevor's emotional feints fall away, forcing him to do a bit of maturing. There's a wonderful cast of supporting characters--a Jamaican cook, an attractive physical therapist, the street-level rabble who occupy the bars and parks of New York City--but it's Roche's balancing of Trevor's complexities with a quick wit, a sharp ear, and a deft understanding of how humans suffer that steals the show.
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- PublisherThe Lilliput Press
- Publication date2007
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