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Bernard MacLaverty Lamb
Vintage 2000 0099284596 / 9780099284598 Paperback Very Good
"clean, tight, unmarked, some light cover edge handling,() On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the Brothers, the regime is without hope, and when he inherits a small legacy he runs away, taking a 12-year-old boy with him. ID: mon0000099581"
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Bernard MacLaverty Secrets
Viking Adult 1984 0670630772 / 9780670630776 Hardcover Very Good
"tight, some light cover edge handling,() Married love, male friendship, a small boy intruding upon secret adult grief, a husband contemplating infidelity - in these wonderful stories Bernard MacLaverty catches his characters at moments of epiphany, when ordinary life is set alight with sudden knowledge, memory, regret or desire. ID: mon0000114142"
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Bernard MacLaverty The Anatomy School
Alfred A. Knopf 2001 0676974449 / 9780676974447 Hardcover Like New
"clean, tight, unmarked,() With The Anatomy School, his first novel since 1997's Grace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty returns to the dual concerns that animated that Booker-nominated success, and his earlier novels Lamb and Cal--the troubled politics of late 20th-century Ireland, and the familiar comedy of working-class Irish life. We meet innocent Belfast Catholic teenager Michael Brennan as he enters a three-day retreat at Ardglass on the eve of his final year at school, resitting his A levels, to the increasing despair of his mother: by the end of the novel, at the end of the 1960s, Michael's innocence is somewhat tarnished, both by his own sexual awakening with an Australian girl in the local university's anatomy department, and by the sectarian bombs providing an inappropriate soundtrack outside. The bulk of the novel is given over to the schoolboy adventures of Brennan with his two friends, the popular sportsman Kavanagh and the sexually and politically mysterious new boy Blaise F ID: mon0000126122"
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Bernard MacLaverty Walking the Dog: And Other Stories
W. W. Norton & Company 1996 0393314537 / 9780393314533 Paperback Very Good
"tight, unmarked, light rubbing to extremities, no reading creases() A rich collection of short stories by one of Ireland's contemporary literary masters. This long-awaited new collection from the noted Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty examines worlds in collision, relationships fragmenting, innocence coming face to face with real life and real death. A Catholic schoolboy playing football has a theological debate with a Protestant policeman: a chess game in Spain is a catalyst for grief and redemption: in the haunting title story a Belfast man out walking his dog is kidnapped at gunpoint. As always, MacLaverty's writing is vivid, exact, and pellucid, his characters perfectly observed, the surface of the prose deceptively still. It is only after we enter the world of the stories that we begin to make out the huge shapes that move there: loss, love, disappointment, fierce joy. This is a powerful, honest, and moving book by one of the great storytellers of our age. ID: mon0000114046"
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