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Antiques dealer John Palmer has seldom left the narrow-minded Irish town where he was born. And the cracks in his psyche are beginning to show. When an old acquaintance, Alan "Redser" McDermot, drags up memories of John's tortured past, John plans a comprehensive and meticulous act of revenge.
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Sean Hughes, a native of Dublin, is the bestselling author of SEAN'S BOOK, THE GREY AREA, and the novel THE DETAINEES. After becoming the youngest winner of the Perrier Award for Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival, he has gone on to perform critically acclaimed television series for Channel 4 and BBC2. He presently lives in London with a cat, dog and loud music.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster Ltd
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0684820811
- ISBN 13 9780684820811
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages336
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