Hession, Rónán
Entry updated 2 September 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1975- ) Irish musician and author, who has performed from around 2003 in the former capacity as by Mumblin' Deaf Ro. His first novels, Leonard and Hungry Pat (2019) and Panenka (2021), are nonfantastic. His third, Ghost Mountain (2024), features the sudden irruption into the middle of a small town of a sizeable mountain, an event which seems also to have occurred elsewhere. The characters in the tale treat this inexplicable event with equanimity, though a tourist trade develops. The matter-of-factness of the extraordinary – occasional echoes of Lucius Shepard's Dragon Griaule are surmisable – conveys a literalness typical of the water margins of Fantastika, though close-to-allegorical moments evoke a sense of a planet about to change. [JC]
Rónán
Rónán Hession
born Dublin, Ireland: 1975
works (selected)
- Ghost Mountain (Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire: Bluemoose Books, 2024) [hb/]
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