The Good Son (Salt Modern Fiction) - Softcover

Paul McVeigh

 
9781784630232: The Good Son (Salt Modern Fiction)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1784630233 ISBN 13: 9781784630232
Verlag: Salt Publishing Limited, 2015

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WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2016 Finalist for The People's Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2016 Chosen for City Reads 2016 Shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize ELLE Best Books of 2015 The Reading Agency: Books of 2015 Mickey Donnelly is smart, which isn't a good thing in his part of town. Despite having a dog called Killer and being in love with the girl next door, everyone calls him 'gay'. It doesn't help that his best friend is his little sister, Wee Maggie, and that everyone knows he loves his Ma more than anything in the world. He doesn't think much of his older brother Paddy and really doesn't like his Da. He dreams of going to America, taking Wee Maggie and Ma with him, to get them away from Belfast and Da. Mickey realises it's all down to him. He has to protect Ma from herself. And sometimes, you have to be a bad boy to be a good son.

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Born in Belfast, Paul’s work has been performed on stage and radio, published in print and translated into seven languages. He began his career as a playwright before moving to London where he wrote comedy shows, which were performed at the Edinburgh Festival and in London’s West End. Moving into prose, his short stories have been published in anthologies & literary journals been read on BBC Radio 3, 4 & 5. ‘Hollow’ was shortlisted for Irish Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards in 2017. Paul co-founded the London Short Story Festival, of which, he was Director and Curator for 2014 & ’15. He is associate director at Word Factory, ‘the UK’s national organisation for excellence in the short story’ The Guardian.

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Verlag
Salt Publishing Limited
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1784630233
ISBN 13 
9781784630232
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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