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"Bernard MacLaverty’s powerful novel is a love story as affecting and tragic as you could want." ―USA Today
When it was first published, Bernard MacLaverty’s masterpiece was hailed by Michael Gorra in the New York Times Book Review as "a marvel of technical perfection...a most moving novel whose emotional impact is grounded in a complete avoidance of sentimentality...[It] will become the Passage to India of the Troubles.” For Cal, a Northern Irish teenager who, against his will, is involved in the terrible war between Catholics and Protestants, some of the choices are devastatingly simple: he can work in the slaughterhouse that nauseates him or join the dole line; he can brood on his past or plan a future with the beautiful, widowed Marcella for whose grief he shares more than a little responsibility.
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About the Author
Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow, Scotland. His books include Lamb, Cal, and Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award.
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“A formidable fictional triumph.”
- Observer
“Miraculously vivid precision...[MacLaverty] is a born novelist.”
- Spectator
“To fashion a short, telling novel out of the hideous complexities of Northern Ireland takes narrative skill of a high order. In Cal Bernard MacLaverty has managed to do it superbly.”
- Daily Telegraph
“Cal is a hard, dark gemstone of a book.”
- Cleveland Plain Dealer
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0393354687
- ISBN 13 9780393354683
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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