Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Burning Your Own
Glenn Patterson
€ 11.08
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Burning Your Own
Paperback.
It is the summer of 1969 and ten-year-old Mal is finding it difficult to settle into his new home, a housing estate on the outskirts of Belfast. He befriends a brash and rebellious teenager, Francy, who revels in his own status as an outsider and has set up camp in the local dump.
But this is no ordinary summer – the civil rights marches are beginning, and the simmering sectarian tensions of the Larkview estate are set to erupt, hastening Mal’s painful, shocking loss of innocence.
A critically acclaimed classic by one of today's best Irish writers.The book ... Read more
Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Blackstaff Press Ltd Belfast
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856408106
SKU
V9780856408106
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 3 to 5 working days
Ref
99-10
About Glenn Patterson
Glenn Patterson is the author of eight previous novels, including Burning Your Own, Fat Lad, The International – `the best novel about the Troubles ever written’ (Anne Enright) – and The Third Party. He is the co-writer of Good Vibrations (BBC Films/The Works), an award-winning movie based on the life of Belfast punk impresario Terri Hooley.
Reviews for Burning Your Own
one of the great novels about Ulster at the start of its Troubles
Carlo Gebler Remarkably assured... Patterson's novel, needless to say, is neither afraid nor prejudiced, but courageously magnanimous. A novel of visionary power that sees through a child's eyes a Belfast about to explode intp sectarian strife. This is a very good novel and deserves your immediate ... Read more
Carlo Gebler Remarkably assured... Patterson's novel, needless to say, is neither afraid nor prejudiced, but courageously magnanimous. A novel of visionary power that sees through a child's eyes a Belfast about to explode intp sectarian strife. This is a very good novel and deserves your immediate ... Read more