Cal
"Bernard MacLaverty's powerful novel is a love story as affecting and tragic as you could want."—USA TodayWhen it was first published, Bernard MacLaverty's fiction masterpiece was hailed by Michael Gorra in the New York Times Book Review as "a marvel of technical perfection. . . . Cal is a...
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"Bernard MacLaverty's powerful novel is a love story as affecting and tragic as you could want."—USA TodayWhen it was first published, Bernard MacLaverty's fiction masterpiece was hailed by Michael Gorra in the New York Times Book Review as "a marvel of technical perfection. . . . Cal is a most moving novel whose emotional impact is grounded in a complete avoidance of sentimentality. . . . [It] will become the Passage to India of the Troubles."For Cal, a Belfast teenager who, against his will, is involved in the terrible war between Catholics and Protestants, some of the choices are devastatingly simple: he can work in the slaughterhouse that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a future with the beautiful, widowed Marcella for whose grief he shares more than a little responsibility.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393313321 (0393313328)
ASIN: 393313328
Publish date: April 17th 1995
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Irish Literature,
War,
Contemporary,
Ireland
The mid 70's to early 80's was a time fraught with danger in Northern Ireland. As an expat living and working in England I am well versed to understand the mindset of the various embattled groups that continued to carry on a war of attrition not only against the so called enemy (police and army) but...