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Author:

Magee, Michael, 1990-

Title:

Close to home / Michael Magee.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

280 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Brothers--Fiction.
Social classes--Fiction.
Working class men--Ireland--Fiction.
Masculinity--Fiction.
Ireland--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0374608326
9780374608323

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1345219362

LCCN:

2022057889

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)