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   Apr 6, 2023 · Close to Home is an extraordinary work of fiction about deciding what kind of a man you want to be and finding your place in the scarred city you call home. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd. ISBN: 9780241582978. Number of pages: 288. Weight: 380 g. Dimensions: 218 x 136 x 32 mm. MEDIA REVIEWS.

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   Apr 4, 2024 · Buy Close to Home: Winner of the Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction 2023 1 by Magee, Michael (ISBN: 9780241996409) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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   Michael Magee is the fiction editor of the Tangerine and a graduate of the creative writing PhD programme at Queen’s University, Belfast. His writing has appeared in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, The Lifeboat and The 32: The Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices. Close to Home is his first novel. It was shortlisted for the Waterstones ...

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   Apr 6, 2023 · By turns hard-edged and soft-hearted, this novel is a gift from Michael Magee to us all-- Jon McGregor, author of 'Reservoir 13' The message of Michael Magee's dead-on debut novel is universal. At its core, Close to Home is about finding a way to transcend the pain, the people and the place you're born into ― The New York Times A complex and compassionate portrait of modern Belfast by an ...

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   Apr 4, 2024 · Michael Magee's Close to Home, amazingly a first novel, is about what it's like to be young and working class right now in Northern Ireland, and is a tremendous read, tensed and immersive, punching the air between hope and despair, deeply decent, unputdownable * Guardian '2023 Summer Reads' (Ali Smith) *

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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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   • Michael Magees Close to Home is yet another brilliant novel to emerge from Northern Ireland, making sense of the impact of the long conflict and the transition to troubled peace; Magee powerfully delineates the psychology of those crushed by betrayal - Irish Times, 'Best Books of 2023'

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   • Magee has a remarkable talent - Sunday Times (Laura Hackett) Taut and impressive, unfaltering and deftly executed . . . [It] feels like that rarest of things: a genuinely necessary book - Guardian (Keiran Goddard) An exceptional debut destined for novel of the year shortlists - Irish Times (Martin Doyle) Michael Magee is a born storyteller.

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   • Close to Home is an extraordinary work of fiction about deciding what kind of a man you want to be and finding your place in the scarred city you call home. Exceptional . . . Every detail rings true, every character is fleshy and real and heartbreaking . . . Magee has a remarkable talent - Sunday Times (Laura Hackett)

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   Apr 4, 2024 · Close to Home is an extraordinary work of fiction about deciding what kind of a man you want to be and finding your place in the scarred city you call home. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd. ISBN: 9780241996409. Number of pages: 288. Weight: 205g. Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 18 mm. Buy Close to Home by Michael Magee from Foyles today!