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Language: English
Published by Braziller Incorporated, George, 1983
- Hardcover
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Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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- Title
- Cal
- Author
- MacLaverty, Bernard
- Publisher
- Braziller Incorporated, George
- Publication year
- 1983
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807610704
- ISBN 13
- 9780807610701
- Item weight
- 0.762 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
Cal, a nineteen-year-old Catholic in Northern Ireland, becomes obsessed with Marcella Morton, the widow of a man he inadvertently helped to kill
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Review
"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)
"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)
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