Close to Home - Paperback
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Close to Home - Paperback
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by Michael Magee (Author)
"Michael Magee's dead-on debut novel is universal." --The New York Times Book Review
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. Michael Magee's luminous debut, 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.Author Biography
Michael Magee was born and grew up in West Belfast. He is the fiction editor of The Tangerine, and his work has appeared in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, and The Lifeboat, and in The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working-Class Writing. He recently received his PhD in creative writing from Queen's University, Belfast. Close to Home is his first novel.
Number of Pages: 288
Dimensions: 0.65 x 8.25 x 5.38 IN
Publication Date: May 14, 2024
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