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   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.

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   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 ...

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   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.

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   May 15, 2023 · CLOSE TO HOME, by Michael Magee. Though the voice is decidedly Irish, the message of Michael Magee’s dead-on debut novel is universal. At its core, “Close to Home” is about finding a way to ...

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   What is the message of close to home by Michael Magee?

   • In Michael Magee’s visceral debut novel, “Close to Home,” a young man commits an assault that jeopardizes his plans for the future. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Though the voice is decidedly Irish, the message of Michael Magee’s dead-on debut novel is universal.

   Book Review: ‘Close to Home,’ by Michael Magee - The New York Times

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   • Close to Home by Michael Magee is published by Hamish Hamilton (£14.99). To support the Guardian and Observer, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply.

   Close to Home by Michael Magee review – Belfast struggles

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   What is Michael Magee's 'close to home' about?

   • Irish writer Michael Magee’s debut novel, “ Close to Home ,” deftly captures the spirit of these times. Like Rooney, Magee explores the world of a literary-minded 20-something navigating the distinctions of class in an affecting story of self-discovery.

   A debut novelist’s moving portrait of the Irish working class

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   What is close to home about?

   • One night, he assaults a stranger at a party, and everything begins to come undone.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.

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   Is 'close to home' a good first-person story?

   • 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. What might seem like a lack of plot progression struck me as true to life, in which growth tends to come slowly, in fits and starts.

   Close to Home by Michael Magee: deft depiction of a generation facing

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   • Close to Home is the best novel I have read in years on the subject of casual substance abuse and addiction. Post-millennial Prufrocks, Magee’s characters measure out their lives not in coffee spoons, but in keys of cocaine.

   Close to Home by Michael Magee review – Belfast struggles

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   May 15, 2023 · Review by Michael Patrick Brady. May 15, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EDT. Ireland was supposed to be different in the new millennium, with the Celtic Tiger in the south and the Good Friday Agreement in the ...