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It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.

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One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

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Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

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I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

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You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.

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I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

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I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

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I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop imagining things and start writing towards these themes.

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I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.

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There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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