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Author Magee, Michael, 1990- author.

Title Close to home / Michael Magee.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F MAGEE, M.    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F MAGEE, MICHAEL    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 280 pages ; 22 cm.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
Subject Brothers -- Fiction.
Social classes -- Fiction.
Working class men -- Ireland -- Fiction.
Masculinity -- Fiction.
Ireland -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
ISBN 9780374608323 (hardcover)
0374608326 (hardcover)
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