Oh When the Saints

“To say Peter Money's Oh When The Saints is beautifully written doesn't give this multi-faced, humane, and profoundly moving book justice. But damnit I'll say it. This book is beautifully written, from start to finish. There were so many times I simply re-read a sentence for the sheer joy of its cadence. . . . A poet, a novelist, Money is the rare fusion. I savored the deeply felt human connections that animate this novel. May the Saint (and Denny, Kath, Nuala, and the others) live on.” —Peter Orner, author of Love and Shame and Love, editor of Underground America

“Despite one solitary mention in his latest book, Limerick city has managed to capture the imagination of a critically acclaimed American poet, novelist, academic and musician” —Limerick Leader

“Young Denny follows sounds and sensations in the hope of a bright future. A great city clutter has to be negotiated. Finding love is a small miracle. Keeping his eye to the kaleidoscope, Peter Money writes with artistry and invention.” —Philip Davison, author of Eureka Dunes

“Hyper-aware Denny, a young American in Dublin, makes his tentative way towards adulthood with a supporting cast of oddball friends. Denny hopes for a big love, the ‘girl named Ireland’. Akin to a Joycean ramble, Oh When the Saints follows a sensitive boy on the reluctant verge of manhood, who cannot help endlessly analysing his own - and others' - place in the stream of life. His heart is ‘a sack of air’ until he meets a trainee librarian with ambitions to be wild. This is a strange, elliptical novel of ideas, told in punchy, poetic prose; Peter Money's is a vivid, fresh and welcome voice.” —Nuala O'Connor, author of Joyride to Jupiter

“In a literary environment where so much new fiction is so predictable in tone and content (first two pages boring me to tears and a return to the library shelf), it's incredibly refreshing to read literature that is geninuely interesting, where every sentence seems unique, where a writer is bending the envelope, creating a different literary consciousness even. . . . You can see the influences from beat poetry/jazz, Joyce, Beckett, Rimbaud, but the rest is pure Peter Money. . . . You will walk away feeling like you know these characters and their relationships in a different, more profound way than from ordinary literature, and your mind will be opened that much more. Afterwards you will say you had a different, and in many ways better, ‘literary experience’, and certainly a more memorable one.” —Richard S, GoodReads