Milkman / Anna Burns.
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- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780571338757
- 0571338755
- 823 BUR 23
- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2018.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Standard Loan | Moylish Library Fiction Collection | 823 BUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100637520 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018: A tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.
' Milkman is extraordinary. I've been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It's frightening, hilarious, wily and joyous all at the same time.' - Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies
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. 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.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2018.
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Author notes provided by Syndetics
Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1962. Her books include Little Constructions, No Bones, and Milkman, which won the 2018 Man Booker Prize.(Bowker Author Biography)