For all its zeitgeist feel and interest in modern culture, there is a classic structure underpinning proceedings. Ava is largely uninterested in her poorly paid job and her peers, and the first-person narrative instead focuses her energy on two seminal relationships over the course of the novel. The exciting times mainly take place inside her head, where a vast, neurotic mind constantly analyses her own behaviour and second-guesses the actions of others.Įxciting Times is an impressive, cerebral debut written with brio and humour. The voice is astute, sardonic and highly emotionally aware. A modern love story of sorts, it follows a year or so in the life of Ava, a 22-year-old Irish woman working as a foreign-language teacher in Hong Kong.
Not a lot happens in the exterior world of the book. The arch title of Naoise Dolan's whipsmart debut novel, Exciting Times, is the first indicator of the author's style.
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