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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. Drawing from his own experiences, Michael Magee examines ...
Apr 6, 2023 · 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. It's a first novel drawn from life, written with the immediacy of thought. It's about what happens when men get desperate, about the cycles of loss and trauma and secrecy that keep them ...
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May 24, 2023 · Close to Home By Michael Magee Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023. Michael Magee’s genuinely startling debut novel Close to Home tells the story of a young man named Sean living in a contemporary Belfast as sere and hopeless as the dark side of the moon.
Apr 7, 2023 · CLOSE TO HOME. 288pp. Hamish Hamilton. £14.99. There is a particular kind of class dynamic in Ireland that can easily be missed by outsiders. As the popular wisdom goes, nobody in the country (bar the landed gentry) is more than two generations away from the poorhouse. This, arguably, has given the unentrenched middle classes a tendency to ...
Apr 10, 2023 · Close to Home sidesteps many common pitfalls plaguing debuts. Avoiding the solipsism that risks infecting in a first-person coming-of-age story, Magee’s secondary characters are fully fleshed out.
May 16, 2023 · The Wall Street Journal. The novel as described—both a vexed homecoming tale and a young writer’s coming-of-age story—sounds identical to 50 other debuts that will be published this year. The difference is in the execution. Close to Home is a novel about the vulnerability of youth that feels altogether adult.
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Apr 8, 2023 · We present an extract from Close To Home, the debut novel by Michael Magee. After Sean attacks a stranger at a party, and is sentenced to 200 hours of community service, he is forced to reckon ...
