About the book: 2002 / Joseph O'Connor is one of the most popular modern Irish writers. His novel Cowboys and Indians was nominated for a Whitbread Award. The hero of the novel, young Dublin native Eddie Virago, goes to London to seek his fortune in the world of rock music. Love and drugs, hard work and the magical world of the stage, disappointments, new hopes, gains and losses accompany him on the way to himself in the crazy world of a giant city..