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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 02/05/2019
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ISBN: 9781784875503
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Length: 176 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 11mm x 129mm
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Weight: 145g
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RRP: £8.99
Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple: he can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a future with Marcella.
Springing out of the fear and violence of Ulster, Cal is a haunting love story that unfolds in a land where tenderness and innocence can only flicker briefly in the dark.
See also: Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 02/05/2019
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ISBN: 9781784875503
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Length: 176 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 11mm x 129mm
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Weight: 145g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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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
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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
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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
