Overview
āMichael Mageeās dead-on debut novel is universal.ā āThe New York Times Book Review
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything heās supposed to do. He works hard, he studies, and heāmostlyāstays out of trouble. The thirty-year conflict is over, heās told, and his future is lit with promise.
But when Sean returns home from university, he finds much of the sameāthe same friends doing the same gear in the same clubs; the same lost brothers and mad fathers; the same closed doors; the same silences. There are no jobs, Seanās degree isnāt worth the paper itās written on, and no one will give him the time of day. One night, he assaults a stranger at a party, and everything begins to come undone.
Michael Mageeās luminous debut, Close to Home, begins with this sudden act of violence and expands into a startling portrait of working-class Ireland under the long shadow of the Troubles. Itās a first novel drawn from life, written with the immediacy of thought. Itās about what happens when men get desperate, about the cycles of loss and trauma and secrecy that keep them trapped, and about the struggle to get free.
This book title, Close to Home (A Novel), ISBN: 9781250335784, by Michael Magee, published by Picador (May 14, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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