Burning Your Own - Softcover

Patterson; Glenn

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54 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856408107 ISBN 13: 9780856408106

Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd, 2008

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It is the summer of 1969 and ten-year-old Mal is finding it difficult to settle into his new home, a housing estate on the outskirts of Belfast. He befriends a brash and rebellious teenager, Francy, who revels in his own status as an outsider and has set up camp in the local dump. But this is no ordinary summer - the civil rights marches are beginning, and the simmering sectarian tensions of the Larkview estate are set to erupt, hastening Mal's painful, shocking loss of innocence. A critically acclaimed classic by one of today's best Irish writers.The book also contains an essay by Glenn Patterson and a critical essay by Carlo Gebler. Glenn Patterson is also the author of Fat Lad, The International and The Third Party, all published by Blackstaff Press.

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Review:

one of the great novels about Ulster at the start of its Troubles -- Carlo Gebler Remarkably assured... Patterson's novel, needless to say, is neither afraid nor prejudiced, but courageously magnanimous. A novel of visionary power that sees through a child's eyes a Belfast about to explode intp sectarian strife. This is a very good novel and deserves your immediate attention. a passionately engaged portrayal of a troubled boy and city

About the Author:

Glenn Patterson is the author of eight previous novels, including Burning Your Own, Fat Lad, The International - `the best novel about the Troubles ever written' (Anne Enright) - and The Third Party. He is the co-writer of Good Vibrations (BBC Films/The Works), an award-winning movie based on the life of Belfast punk impresario Terri Hooley.

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