Dan Kavanagh

"Dan Kavanagh was born in County Sligo in 1946. Having devoted his adolescence to truancy, venery and petty theft, he left home at seventeen and signed on as a deckhand on a Liberian tanker. After jumping ship at Montevideo, he roamed across the Americas taking a variety of jobs: he was a steer-wrestler, a waiter-on-roller-skates at a drive-in eatery in Tucson, and a bouncer in a gay bar in San Francisco. He is currently working in London at jobs he declines to specify, and lives in North Islington." 

-- from the dust jacket of Duffy, 1980. 

Interviews with Dan Kavanagh (excerpted)

The Dan Kavanagh Novels 

Duffy

London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. 180 p. (21 cm.) ISBN: 0224018221 

New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. 180 p. (21 cm.) 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Kaoyaku o utte Tokyo: Hayakawa Shobo, 1981. 169 p. (19 cm.) 

(Series: A Hayakawa pocket mystery book; no. 1374: Sekai misuteri shirizu) 
(Translation of Duffy by Yoshinobu Tamura.) 

La nuit est sale. [Paris]: Gallimard, 1981. 217 p. (18 cm.) 

SDM: 8308885 [A 4] 
(Translation of Duffy by F. M. Watkins.) 

Duffy. [St. Albans]: Triad, 1982. 173 p. (18 cm.) ISBN: 0586053980 (paperback) 

New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. 180 p. (18 cm.) ISBN: 039474442X (paperback) 

(First US edition) 

Penguin, 1988. 180 p. ISBN: 0140096418 (paperback) 

New York: Perennial Library, 1989. 180 p. (18 cm.) ISBN: 0060809515 

Arles: Actes Sud, 1992. 283 p. (19 cm.) ISBN: 2-86869-883-2 

(Translation of Duffy by Philippe Loubat-Delranc. SDM: 9301416 [A 3]) 

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Fiddle City

London: Cape, 1981. 173 p. (21 cm.) ISBN: 0224019775 

New York: Pantheon Books, 1981. 173 p. (21 cm.) 

Orokasha no machi. Tokyo: Hayakawa Shobo, 1982. 165 p. (19 cm.) 

(Series: A Hayakawa pocket mystery book; no. 1395: Sekai misuteri shirizu) 
(Translation of Fiddle City by Yoshinoby Tamura.) 

Fiddle City. [St. Albans]: Triad, 1983. 173 p. (18 cm.) ISBN: 0586055975 (paperback) 

New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. 173 p. (18 cm.) ISBN: 0394744411 

Penguin, 1988. 173 p. ISBN: 0140096426 (paperback) 

New York: Perennial Library, 1989. 173 p. (18 cm.) ISBN: 0060809523 <> 

Vol à tous les étages. Arles: Actes Sud, 1993. 290 p. (19 cm.) ISBN: 2-7427-0048-X 

(Translation of Fiddle City by Philippe Loubat-Delranc. SDM: 9402598 [A 4]) 

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Putting the Boot In

London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. 192 p. (21 cm.) ISBN: 0224023322 

London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. [150] p. (23 cm.) ISBN: 0224023322 

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987. 192 p. (18 cm.) ISBN: 0140092048 (paperback) 

Arrêt de jeu. Arles: Actes Sud, 1991. 296 p. (19 cm.) ISBN: 2-86869-696-1 

(Translation of Putting the Boot In by Richard Matas. SDM: 9108024 [A 3]) 

Arrêt de jeu. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1993 (c1991). 225 p. (18 cm.) ISBN: 2-02-019857-6 

(Translation of Putting the Boot In by Richard Matas. SDM: 9310296 [A 3]) 

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Going to the Dogs

London: Viking, 1987. [224] p. (22 cm.) ISBN: 0670818291 

New York: Viking, 1987. 207p. (22 cm.) ISBN: 0670818291 

New York : Pantheon Books, 1987. 207 p. (22 cm.) ISBN: 0394563220 

Penguin, 1988. 207 p. ISBN: 0140103376 (paperback) 

New York: Perennial Library, 1989. 207 p. (18 cm.) ISBN: 0060809531 

Tout fout le camp. Arles: Actes Sud, 1991. 344 p. (19 cm.) ISBN: 2-86869-743-7 

(Translation of Going to the Dogs by Christine Le Boeuf. SDM: 9204031 [A 4]) 

Tout fout le camp Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1994 (c1991). 216 p. (18 cm.) ISBN: 2-02-019859-2 

(Translation of Going to the Dogs by Christine Le Boeuf. SDM: 9410834 [A 4]) 

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Duffy Omnibus

Penguin, 1991. 740 p. (752 p.) ISBN: 0140158243 (paperback) 

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