Close to home
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
280 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition
First American edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Summary
"Luminous and devastating, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by class, by trauma, and by silence, but also by the courage to love and to survive"-- 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.
Call Number
FICTION MAGEE
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
ISBN
9780374608323
Close to home
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
7 audio discs (8 hr., 20 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, [2023]
Summary
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he studies, and he, mostly, stays out of trouble. The thirty-year conflict is over, he's told, and his future is lit with promise. But when Sean returns home from university, he finds much of the same-the 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, 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 assaults a stranger at a party, and everything begins to come undone.
Call Number
AUDIOCD/FIC/MAGEE M
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
ISBN
9798400137570
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