By Kevin Duffy • Published 29th December 2011
Bluemoose editors are in the final throes of finishing the edit for PIG IRON by Benjamin Myers, which we’ll be publishing on May 31st 2012.
PIG IRON is a beautifully written book by a very gifted writer.
The story
John-John wants to escape his past. But the legacy of brutality left by his bare knuckle boxer father, self-styled King of the Gypsies, Mac Wisdom, looms large over his life. John-John’s new job as an ice cream van man, should offer freedom, but instead pulls him into the dark underbelly of life in a northern town where his family name is mud.
As John-John attempts tp trade prejudice, parole officers and local gangs for ‘the green cathedral- – the rural landscape that provides solace for him – the story of Mac’s rise and spectacularly bloody fall unravels.
PIG IRON is the story of a traveller who hasn’t travelled; a young man fighting for his very survival.
