Groundrush

From the subsistence farms of nineteen fifties Ireland to the hedonisticlife of Left Bank Paris, from the bleak beauty of the West of Ireland toPragues post communist rudderless freedom, from life on swingingSohos unforgiving streets to the excitement of the stag hunt in County Meath,from the life and death struggle of the skyscraper construction workers of NewYork City to the longings of a lovelorn Dublin office worker, from the Sistersof Mercy slave labour laundries to the virginity clinics of Morocco, PatrickGough takes you on geographical and emotional rollercoaster. The storiestrace a mans life, from childhood to middle age, in an explosive mixture ofjoys and frustration, fear and longing, in a rhapsody of colour and emotion. As in the story Painting with Light, life is telescoped through a sharp focusedlens, zooming in on the pain and pleasure of living.