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Mickey is aware from an early age that the world is against him. This is a fact. Armed with this information, nothing can defeat his devil-may-care attitude, nor stop him getting exactly what he needs. Except perhaps for the fact that he can do nothing right. Why is Mickey Collins so hopeless? Can anything be done to help? His older brother teaches him skills such as pre-teen drinking, drug taking and Breaking & Entering, which seem to help, but somehow are not enough. His uncle Con shows him the finer points of shoplifting and how to strip a house of metal. But even this brings no real joy. Perhaps The State can teach this young man a thing or two? After God has a go, there is only one thing for it: Mickey must learn a lesson from his mother.

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"""I adored Mickey Collins by Kevin Forde. From the moment the story began until the last sentence, it was a treat that I thoroughly enjoyed.""Readersfavorite.com review ""Readers who enjoy voice-driven Irish literary storytelling will devour this account of a wild life."" Booklife.com review ""...awesomely original story had me laughing uncontrollably, opening my mouth in disbelief, and yearning for more unforgettable experiences with its purposefully casual, extended sentences. The novel is full of fascinatingly strange individuals, all of whom are recounted from unique viewpoints by the insightful protagonist.""Readersfavorite.com review"

I adored Mickey Collins by Kevin Forde. From the moment the story began until the last sentence, it was a treat that I thoroughly enjoyed. Readersfavorite.com review Readers who enjoy voice-driven Irish literary storytelling will devour this account of a wild life. Booklife.com review ...awesomely original story had me laughing uncontrollably, opening my mouth in disbelief, and yearning for more unforgettable experiences with its purposefully casual, extended sentences. The novel is full of fascinatingly strange individuals, all of whom are recounted from unique viewpoints by the insightful protagonist. Readersfavorite.com review

"""extraordinary... a remarkably human and humane book... the milieu is wholly convincing... all through the book there are instances, delicately written and almost unnoticed, of instinctive human goodness in the exchanges between characters... Sentence after sentence I could hear the deep music of the city I grew up in, and if that were the book's only achievement it would be a signal achievement."" ""It's a very fine book"" Theo Dorgan ""I adored Mickey Collins by Kevin Forde. From the moment the story began until the last sentence, it was a treat that I thoroughly enjoyed."" Readersfavorite.com review ""Readers who enjoy voice-driven Irish literary storytelling will devour this account of a wild life."" Booklife.com review ""...awesomely original story had me laughing uncontrollably, opening my mouth in disbelief, and yearning for more unforgettable experiences with its purposefully casual, extended sentences. The novel is full of fascinatingly strange individuals, all of whom are recounted from unique viewpoints by the insightful protagonist.""Readersfavorite.com review"

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