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Luminous and devastating, a portrait of young manhood and working-class life from Observer Best New Novelist Michael Magee. Close to Home follows Sean, who is back in Belfast and slipping into old habits. He's caught up in the cycle of mad all-nighters, borrowed tenners, and missing...
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Description
Luminous and devastating, a portrait of young manhood and working-class life from Observer Best New Novelist Michael Magee.
Close to Home follows Sean, who is back in Belfast and slipping into old habits. He's caught up in the cycle of mad all-nighters, borrowed tenners, and missing rent, while the casual jobs he takes constantly fall through. He's back in the scarred streets where the promised prosperity of peacetime has never truly arrived. Among his brothers, his ma, and all the things they never discuss.
One night, at a party, Sean finds himself dog-tired and surrounded by jeering strangers, his back against the wall. It's then that he makes a significant mistake.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780241996409
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 April 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 204g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Michael Magee is the fiction editor of the Tangerine and a graduate of the creative writing PhD programme at Queen's University, Belfast. His writing has appeared in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, The Lifeboat and The 32- The Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices. Close to Home is his first novel. It was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023 and won the Rooney Prize for Literature 2023.
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