Emily Dawson

Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.

A struggling writer and his engaged buddy hit the road for California wine country.

After the flames is an apocalypse anthology of seven cerebral and stylish stories, each sharing a vision of the end of days.