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| Genre/Form: | Bildungsromans Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Seamus Deane |
| ISBN: | 0394574400 9780394574400 |
| OCLC Number: | 35961458 |
| Description: | 245 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Seamus Deane. |
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Abstract:
A boy's coming of age in 1950s Northern Ireland amid the fear of the present and the ghosts of the past. It turns out his paternal uncle did not just die, but was executed as an informer. Not only that, the man who ordered the execution was his maternal grandfather. There's more, the uncle was actually innocent, set up by another member of the family. A first novel.
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