Small things like these / Claire Keegan.
By: Keegan, Claire [author.].
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TextPublisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2022Description: 116 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780571368709.Subject(s): Merchants -- Ireland -- Fiction | Unmarried mothers -- Ireland -- Fiction | Unmarried mothers | Merchants | Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- FictionDDC classification: FIC KEE Awards: Orwell Prize for Political Fiction winner, 2022.Summary: "It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness. '[Claire Keegan] creates luminous effects with spare material, so every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion.' -- Hilary Mantel." -- Dust jacket.
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"It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness. '[Claire Keegan] creates luminous effects with spare material, so every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion.' -- Hilary Mantel." -- Dust jacket.
Orwell Prize for Political Fiction winner, 2022.
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