The Prodigals follows the lives of four troubled young men in Manchester - Brian, Howard, Declan and the novel's anti-hero, Travis McGuiggan. It's a book about friendship, religion, drinking, cruelty and love. It's also a book about leaving home and returning.
Prodigal:
(n) A reckless, irresponsible person; a person who spends lavishly or squanders money.
The Prodigals follows the lives of four troubled young men in Manchester - Brian, Howard, Declan and the novel's anti-hero, Travis McGuiggan. It's a book about friendship, religion, drinking, cruelty and love. It's also a book about leaving home and returning.
Prodigal:
(n) A reckless, irresponsible person; a person who spends lavishly or squanders money.
The Prodigal Son: (as in the Biblical parable)
1. a disobedient and irresponsible son who wastes money on a life of pleasure and later returns home to ask for his parents' forgiveness.
2. a person who acts irresponsibly and later regrets it.
Frank Burton was born in Lancashire in 1979, and now lives in Hampshire. He has been published widely in the UK, Australia and USA. He is the author of the short story collection, A History of Sarcasm (Dog Horn 2009), and the founder of the Philistine Press website, philistinepress.com. The Prodigals is his first novel.
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The Prodigals follows the lives of four troubled young men in Manchester - Brian, Howard, Declan and the novel's anti-hero, Travis McGuiggan. It's a book about friendship, religion, drinking, cruelty and love. It's also a book about leaving home and returning.Prodigal:
(n) A reckless, irresponsible person; a person who spends lavishly or squanders money.
The Prodigal Son: ...