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by Michael Magee

Book Overview

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every-thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he studies, and he - mostly - stays out of trouble. The thirty-year conflict is over, he's told, and his future is lit with promise.

But when Sean returns home from university, he finds much of the same-the same friends doing the same gear in the same clubs; the same lost broth-ers and mad fathers; the same closed doors; the same silences. There are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374608326
• ISBN13: 9780374608323
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.5"