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02059aam a22004098i 4500 001 53995748F9F811EDB1C0740753ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230524010041 008 221208s2023 nyu e 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022057889 020 $a 0374608326 020 $a 9780374608323 035 $a (OCoLC)1345219362 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d LJW $d RNL $d JIU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Magee, Michael, $d 1990- 245 10 $a Close to home / $c Michael Magee. 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2023. 300 $a 280 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Brothers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Social classes $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Working class men $z Ireland $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Masculinity $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Ireland $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 6 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230902012408.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230802011130.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011654.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230701010046.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230606011223.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20230524010434.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=53995748F9F811EDB1C0740753ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search