Cool About the Ankles

From a hotel room high above snowy Manhatten, John Kelly considers life, the universe and Lower Lough Erne. Part diary, part travel book, part memoir, 'Cool about the ankles' is a new sort of book from a new sort of voice- Irish but cosmopolitan, funny but reflective, lyrical but immediate, modern but profoundly influenced by the popular culture of the past. Jazz, soccer, hares, Woody Allen, coal sheds, controlled explosions, tin whistles, the Great White Way- generously open to all impressions and wonderfully adept at expressing their impact, John Kelly has written a candid, witty and bravely personal book for our times.