Cadenza

A pioneering work of autofiction, Ralph Cusack's Cadenza tackles time and memory, life and death "with an Anglo-Irish arrogance worthy of Beckett." (Gilbert Sorrentino)

'It's just like this: I don't want to go home and I can't stand Dublin nor any place between the two of them either or at all...'

After a harrowing trip to the dentist, Desmond, the narrator of Ralph Cusack's Cadenza, boards a train, locks himself in cabin 304D, and decides to take up residence indefinitely. Between room servi...