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Bernard MacLaverty’s powerful novel is a love story as affecting and tragic as you could want." —USA Today When it was first published, Bernard MacLaverty’s masterpiece was hailed by Michael Gorra in the New York Times Book Review as "a marvel of technical perfection…a most moving novel whose emotional impact is grounded in a complete avoidance of sentimentality…[It] will become the Passage to India of the Troubles.” For Cal, a Northern Irish teenager who, against his will, is involved in the terrible war between Catholics and Protestants, some of the choices are devastatingly simple: he can work in the slaughterhouse that nauseates him or join the dole line; he can brood on his past or plan a future with the beautiful, widowed Marcella for whose grief he shares more than a little responsibility.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393354989

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9780393354980

Lamb

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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Lamb

By: Bernard MacLaverty

On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the youngest brothers, the regime is without hope, and when he inherits a small legacy he defies his elders and runs away, taking with him a twelve-year-old boy, Owen Kane. Radio Eireann call it a kidnapping. For Michael the act is the beginning of Owen's salvation. Posing as father and son, they concentrate on discovering the happiness that is so unfamiliar to them both. But as the outside world closes in around them - as time, money and opportunity run out - Michael finds himself moving towards a solution that is as uncompromising as it is inspired by love.

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160

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Random House

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1446444597

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9781446444597

Grace Notes

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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Grace Notes

By: Bernard MacLaverty

A single mother is torn between duty to her child and her career as a pianist and composer. The woman is Irish and her problem is aggravated by church and parents. Lots of detail on musical composition.

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288

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393318419

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9780393318418

Midwinter Break: A Novel

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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Midwinter Break: A Novel

By: Bernard MacLaverty

Shortlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award "[A] wrenchingly intimate depiction of a couple in the chilly, hibernal years of their marriage…[A book] with rare and unexpected beauty." —Wall Street Journal With Midwinter Break, a moving portrait of retired couple Gerry and Stella Gilmore’s marriage in crisis, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. Through accurate, compassionate observation and effortlessly elegant writing, MacLaverty reveals the long-unspoken insecurities that exist between Gerry and Stella over their four-day holiday in Amsterdam, crafting a profound examination of human love.

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164

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393609634

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9780393609639

Walking the Dog

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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Walking the Dog

By: Bernard MacLaverty

A rich collection of short stories by one of Ireland's contemporary literary masters.

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214

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393314537

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9780393314533

Collected Stories

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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Collected Stories

By: Bernard MacLaverty

For the first time all of Bernard MacLaverty’s unforgettable short stories are gathered together in a beautiful hard cover edition containing a new introduction by the author Since the publication of Secrets and Other Stories in 1977, Bernard MacLaverty has been celebrated as one of the finest living short-story writers. Writing in the New York Times, William Boyd summoned the shades of Yeats, Joyce, and Flann O'Brien, insisting that "MacLaverty sits perfectly comfortably" in their company. The Guardian simply said "MacLaverty is a master." Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life’s big events: love and loss, separation and violence, death and betrayal. But the stories teem with smaller significant moments, too—private epiphanies, chilling exchanges, intimate encounters. A writer of great compassion, insight, and humanity, MacLaverty surprises us time and again with the sensitivity of his ear and the accuracy of his eye. Each of these extraordinary stories—with their wry, self-deprecating humor, elegance, and subtle wisdom—gets to the very heart of life.

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644

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Random House

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0224097806

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9780224097802

The Anatomy School

By: Bernard Maclaverty

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The Anatomy School

By: Bernard Maclaverty

Absorbing, tense, and often very funny, The Anatomy School recreates the high anxieties and deep joys of a boy’s quest for his place in the world. This is the story of Martin Brennan and his growing up – a troubled boy in troubled times, a boy who knows all the questions but none of the answers. Before he can become an adult, Martin must unravel the sacred and contradictory mysteries of religion, science and sex; he must learn the value of friendship; but most of all he must pass his exams – whatever the cost. A book that celebrates the desire to speak and the need to say nothing, The Anatomy School moves from the enforced silence of Martin’s Catholic school retreat, through the hilarious tea-and-biscuits repartee of his eccentric elders, to the awkward wit and loose profanity of his two friends – the charismatic Kavanagh and the subversive Blaise Foley – as we follow Martin from the initiations of youth to the devoutly wished consummation of the flesh.

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458

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Vintage Canada

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0307369935

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9780307369932

Cal

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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By: Bernard MacLaverty

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393354989

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9780393354980

Matters of Life and Death: Stories

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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Matters of Life and Death: Stories

By: Bernard MacLaverty

MacLaverty's tales are poised and beautifully balanced, outward yet intimate, graced by both subtlety and substance."—The Independent A new book from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but Matters of Life and Death is more than that. It is the finest collection yet from a contemporary master of the form. Beginning with the sudden terror of a family caught up in shocking sectarian violence, and ending with the whiteout of an Iowa blizzard and the fear of losing your way very far from home, this collection is about bonds made and broken, secret and known. In the extraordinary story "Up the Coast," a landscape painter discovers a place that makes her, finally, feel whole, only to have that communion shattered by an arbitrary act of aggression that will resonate throughout her life. Written with effortless skill and empathy, these stories are hauntingly real. MacLaverty's perfect attention to every detail, every nuance of idiom and character, remakes the world for us here on the page.

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135

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393634892

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9780393634891

Grace Notes: A Novel

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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Grace Notes: A Novel

By: Bernard MacLaverty

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Prize The luminous novel by one of the finest living Irish writers, which Brian Moore has praised as "in every sense a triumph…moving throughout and ending triumphantly and joyously in its own special music." Grace Notes is a compact and altogether masterful portrait of a woman composer and the complex interplay between her life and her art. With superb artistry and startling intimacy, it brings us into the life of Catherine McKenna—estranged daughter, vexed lover, new mother, and musician making her mark in a male-dominated world. It is a book that the Virginia Woolf of A Room of One's Own would instantly understand.

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288

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393634914

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9780393634914

Lamb

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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Lamb

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Random House

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1446444597

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Lamb

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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Lamb

By: Bernard MacLaverty

Lamb" retrace la fuite à travers l'lrlande jusqu'à Londres, d'un prêtre catholique, éducateur idéaliste dans un centre de redressement, avec un jeune fugueur épileptique.

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Penguin Books

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0140057692

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9780140057690

The Anatomy School

By: Bernard Maclaverty

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The Anatomy School

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Vintage Canada

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0307369935

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Matters of Life and Death: Stories

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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Midwinter Break

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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Midwinter Break

By: Bernard MacLaverty

A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the Year Winner of the Bord Gáis Novel of the Year ‘Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms – to an honest reckoning – with love and the loss of love, with memory and pain...this is a novel of great ambition by an artist at the height of his powers’ Colm Tóibín A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly to Amsterdam for a midwinter break. A holiday to refresh the senses, to see the sights and to generally take stock of what remains of their lives. But amongst the wintry streets and icy canals we see their relationship fracturing beneath the surface. And when memories re-emerge of a troubled time in their native Ireland things begin to fall apart. As their midwinter break comes to an end, we understand how far apart they are – and can only watch as they struggle to save themselves.

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1473546710

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Grace Notes: A Novel

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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By: Bernard MacLaverty

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Walking the Dog: And Other Stories

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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Walking the Dog: And Other Stories

By: Bernard MacLaverty

A rich collection of short stories by one of Ireland's contemporary literary masters. This long-awaited new collection from the noted Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty examines worlds in collision, relationships fragmenting, innocence coming face to face with real life and real death. A Catholic schoolboy playing football has a theological debate with a Protestant policeman; a chess game in Spain is a catalyst for grief and redemption; in the haunting title story a Belfast man out walking his dog is kidnapped at gunpoint. As always, MacLaverty's writing is vivid, exact, and pellucid, his characters perfectly observed, the surface of the prose deceptively still. It is only after we enter the world of the stories that we begin to make out the huge shapes that move there: loss, love, disappointment, fierce joy. This is a powerful, honest, and moving book by one of the great storytellers of our age.

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0393634884

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9780393634884

Saint Joan

A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue

By: Bernard Shaw,Jacqueline Fisher

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Saint Joan

A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue

By: Bernard Shaw,Jacqueline Fisher

The writer on writing -- Introduction -- Structure of the play -- The character of Joan -- Other characters -- Shaw and the Middle Ages -- Shaw's religious theme -- Humour -- Further assignments -- Suggestions for further reading -- Wider reading assignments.

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Longman Schools Division (a Pearson Education Company)

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0582077869

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9780582077867

Solo a dos voces

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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Solo a dos voces

By: Bernard MacLaverty

Una compositora extremadamente comprometida con una profesion que le ofrece mas sinsabores que triunfos, debe regresar apresuradamente al condado que la vio nacer, Derry, cuando su padre, con el que no tuvo una relacion excesivamente buena, fallece. Despues de esta apertura, Bernard MacLaverty compone una novela de extraordinaria sensibilidad en la que los reencuentros con el pasado y con las personas que, de un modo u otro, voluntaria o involuntariamente, trazaron el destino de esta compositora, Catherine Anne MacKenna, se convierte en eje sobre el que desplegara una brillante exploracion de la complejidad del ser humano y de las relaciones personales. El trasfondo sobre el que se desarrolla la historia, una Irlanda empobrecida y dividida entre catolicos y protestantes, esta recreada con un crudo realismo sobre el que destaca el dialogo entre dos formas de entender la vida.

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8435008711

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9788435008716

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