"The Manganese's Inheritance" by Brian Moore

This was definitely an odd book, and for the most part, I'd say it wasn't a good book. It was filled with so much useless exposition and description, that I ended up skipping over much of it. I did enjoy the final part, where the "loser" poet met his incestuous look-alike uncle and saw his own sad future, .... obsessing over a poet ancestor, who was really not that great. Much of the book takes place in Ireland, but not from an enjoyable point of view.