The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years

The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years is a 2003 novel by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard, and the third in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.[1][2][3]

The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years
AuthorPaul Howard
IllustratorAlan Clarke
Cover artistAlan Clarke
CountryRepublic of Ireland
LanguageEnglish
SeriesRoss O'Carroll-Kelly
Genrecomic novel, satire
Set inDublin, 2000–2001
PublisherThe O'Brien Press
Publication date
7 March 2003
Media typePaperback
Pages208
ISBN0-86278-809-9
823.92
Preceded byRoysh Here, Roysh Now… The Teenage Dirtbag Years 
Followed byPS, I Scored The Bridesmaids 

The title refers to the Sue Townsend novel Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, as well as the orange mocha frappuccino drink ordered by three male models in the film Zoolander.

Background

Howard wrote The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years in autumn 2002, intending it to be the last novel in the series. The idea of making Ross an estate agent came to Howard after shopping for a house himself and being offered a modest house for IR£750,000 by a very young estate agent.[4]

Plot
Statue of Ross

After dropping out of college and being kicked out of home by his parents, Ross finds work as an estate agent for Hook, Lyon and Sinker.[5]

Reception

Writing in The Irish Times, Aengus Collins reviewed it negatively, saying "Ross is a character with considerable comic potential, but regrettably little of this potential is realised here. One of the problems is that Ross is a fool living amidst like-minded fools. Too much of the reader's time is spent in the restricted company of Ross's largely identikit friends and acquaintances. […] There is little to pull the story forward, and the telescoping of Ross's emotional development, such as there is of it, into the final four pages of the book is simply lazy."[6]

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2010-09-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-09-14. Retrieved 2010-09-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Maher, Eamon; O'Brien, Eugene (September 4, 2014). "From Prosperity to Austerity: A Socio-Cultural Critique of the Celtic Tiger and Its Aftermath". Oxford University Press – via Google Books.
  4. O'Carroll-Kelly, Ross (September 12, 2012). "Ross O'Carroll-Kelly: The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years". The O'Brien Press – via Google Books.
  5. Gorman, Clare (June 1, 2015). "The Undecidable: Jacques Derrida and Paul Howard". Cambridge Scholars Publishing – via Google Books.
  6. "Ross loses the plot en route to Tallaght". The Irish Times.
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