Close to home
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages : 22 cm.
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La Veta Regional Library District - FICTION | F Mag | On Shelf |
Ruby Sisson Library - FICTION | FIC MAGE, M | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Format
Book
Edition
First American edition.
Street Date
2305
Language
English
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"Luminous and devastating, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by class, by trauma, and by silence, but also by the courage to love and to survive"--,Provided by publisher.,While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything 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 brothers and mad fathers; the same closed doors; the same silences. There are no jobs, Sean's degree isn't worth the paper it's written on, and no one will give him the time of day. One night, he assaults a stranger at a party, and everything begins to come undone.
Close to Home begins with this sudden act of violence and expands into a startling portrait of working-class Ireland under the long shadow of the Troubles. It's a first novel drawn from life, written with the immediacy of thought. It's about what happens when men get desperate, about the cycles of loss and trauma and secrecy that keep them trapped, and about the struggle to get free.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Magee, M. (2023). Close to home (First American edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Magee, Michael, 1990-. 2023. Close to Home. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Magee, Michael, 1990-. Close to Home Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Magee, Michael. Close to Home First American edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
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