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- Published: 7 May 2019
- ISBN: 9781784875503
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $24.99
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- Published: 7 May 2019
- ISBN: 9781784875503
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $24.99
Simple humanity, eloquently caught....Though Cal is a bleak novel, there is a flicker of lyricism running through it, like the sun shining through the shattered windows of a ruined church
New York Times
To fashion a short, telling novel out of the hideous complexities of Northern Ireland takes narrative skill of a high order. In Cal Bernard MacLaverty has managed to do it superbly
Nina Bawden
It performs the remarkable feat of compressing into its short span both a doomed love affair and an account of the impossibility of living, in the circumstances of that doomed province, without redemption and without punishment… MacLaverty has a true feeling for tragedy’
Anita Brookner