![]() ![]() A form of private commentary addressed to Karine runs through the book, reflecting on the long arc of their entanglement - which McInerney slightly over-refers to as their ‘history’. Ostensibly he’s back to make an album (hence rock’n’roll) with his band Lord Urchin, but it also means a home-coming to Karine and their infant son, and hopes for a return to, or a development of, the heart-rending first love they stumbled through in Glorious Heresies. ![]() Ryan has returned to Cork, where bad blood waits for him, barely congealed and threatening, darkly, to ooze out at any moment. It reprises Glorious Heresies’ movement between multiple characters, Ryan Cusack (centre of Blood Miracles) seen through them. She blends the grimy street life of drug-dealers and down-and-outs with religious and social reflection. ![]() The Rules of Revelation follows her debut, The Glorious Heresies (winner of the 2016 Women’s Prize in its focus on the relationship between teenagers Ryan and Karine, it represents the sex component) and its sequel, The Blood Miracles (drugs, 2017). Lisa McInerneys Glorious Heresies is a powerful book. Three novels set in Cork structured around sex, drugs and rock’n’roll and, within that, ‘smoke, coke and yokes, St Paddy’s modern trinity’. ![]()
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