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Synopsis
Interconnected stories trace a young boy's relationship with his gentle mother and his sometimes terrifying father, a village police sergeant, who works on the border of Northern Ireland
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From Library Journal
In this slim, memorable volume of seven stories about a single family, the borders are those between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, paternal and maternal filiation, youth and adulthood, home and distance. The station is a rural police post, scene of a son's negotiation of a brutal farm-town society and an equally brutal home life. The proceedings are as anonymous as that border in the title, and they are related in the conspicuously terse language and adolescent male perspective central to recent Irish fiction. An exciting addition to the series of compelling Irish books about debilitating life and liberating language that extends from Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man through McGahern's The Barracks .
- John P. Harrington, The Cooper Union, New York
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Publishers Weekly
In these seven interlocking tales, an Irish boy who craves the approval of his coarse, burly police sergeant father discovers the intricacies of relationships with peers, parents and religion. ``Adroitly crafted, intensely dramatic,'' said PW . ``Written in spare yet lyrical prose, these sometimes poignant, often hilarious stories capture the mosaic of contemporary Irish life.''
Copyright 1991 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherGrand Central Pub
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0446393029
- ISBN 13 9780446393027
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Paperback Edition. FIRST PRINTING of the First Paperback Edition. Novel set in Northern Ireland, of a people divided by loyalty, betrayal, sickness, birth, faith, and desire, and a young boy desperately trying to live his life amongst it all. Softcover, 164pp. A nice copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 00012341
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