- Fiction, Young women, Political violence, Girls
"This is a book about feelings, family, sex, and Ireland - but don't tell Amelia that. She's the one growing up in the mad family, in the mad society, who doesn't want to know what's going on.
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Prestige, contemporary, character-led and bleak.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Anna Burns
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 359
- Publisher
- Flamingo, W.W. Norton
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393323030
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