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Milkman / Anna Burns.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Burns Milkman
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burns, Anna, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young women--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Sisters--Fiction.
- Sisters.
- Gossip--Fiction.
- Gossip.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Political violence--Fiction.
- Political violence.
- Stalking--Fiction.
- Stalking.
- Paramilitary forces--Fiction.
- Paramilitary forces.
- Northern Ireland--History--1968-1998--Fiction.
- Northern Ireland.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- History
- Psychological fiction
- Domestic fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Cloth bindings
- Physical Description:
- 348 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Liberty Faber edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Faber & Faber, 2019.
- Summary:
- "In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences." -- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Man Booker Prize winner 2018.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: "This book is covered in Liberty London's Small Town fabric. Copyright © Liberty Fabric Limited 2019." -- title page verso.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Nora Barry.
- ISBN:
- 9780571355075
- 0571355072
- OCLC:
- 1129475245
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