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6%OFFMichael Magee - Close to Home - 9780241582978 - S9780241582978
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Close to Home

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Description for Close to Home Hardcover. Kennys Limited Edition. Signed and numbered by the author. Includes extra content in the form of an exclusive interview with the author.****THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE DELIVERED AROUND THE PUBLICATION DATE IN APRIL 2023**** 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. Sean's brother Anthony is a hard man. When they were kids their ma did her best to keep him out of trouble but you can't say anything to Anto. Sean was supposed to be different. He was supposed to leave and never come back. But Sean does come back. Arriving home after university, he finds Anthony's drinking is worse than ever. Meanwhile the jobs in Belfast have vanished, 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 loses control and assaults a stranger at a party, and everything is tipped into chaos. Close to Home witnesses the aftermath of that night, as Sean attempts to make sense of who he has become, and to reckon with the relationships that have shaped him, for better and worse. Drawing from his own experiences, Michael Magee examines the forces which keep young working class men in harm's way, in a debut novel which shines with intelligence and humanity on every page. Close to Home is an extraordinary work of fiction about deciding what kind of a man you want to be and finding your place in the scarred city you call home.
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 Sean's brother Anthony is a hard man. When they were kids their ma did her best to keep him out of trouble but you can't say anything to Anto. Sean was supposed to be different. He was supposed to leave and never come back. But Sean does come back. Arriving home after university, he finds Anthony's drinking is worse than ever. Meanwhile the jobs in Belfast have vanished, Sean's degree ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241582978
SKU
S9780241582978
Shipping Time
Will be shipped on or around publication date
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About Michael Magee
Michael Magee is the fiction editor of The Tangerine and a graduate of the PhD Creative Writing programme at Queen's University, Belfast. His writing has appeared in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, The Lifeboat and in The 32: An Anthology of Working Class Writing. Close to Home is his first novel.

Reviews for Close to Home
The best debut I've read in years - a tender examination of class, masculinity and place
Nicole Flattery, author of 'Show Them A Good Time' A vision of a post-conflict Belfast that didn't deliver what it promised, blighted by poverty, pain and memory. But far from being bleak, I laughed out loud many times. And it is full of ... Read more

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