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"Rescued from the squalor of a Romanian orphanage, and adopted by the rural community of west Mayo, J. J. O'Malley should have grown up happy. The boy has no gift for it, though, and his new life has a brutal way of giving him plenty to be unhappy about.
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Contemporary, contemplative, character-led and meticulous.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Mike McCormack
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 199
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781616952327
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