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Author Burns, Anna, 1962- author

Title Milkman / Anna Burns
Edition First Graywolf printing
Published London : Faber & Faber Limited, 2018
©2018

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Description 348 pages ; 23 cm
regular print
Summary "In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister is our protagonist. She is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her nearly-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman (which for the life of her, she cannot work out how it came about). But when first brother-in-law, who of course had sniffed it out, told his wife, her first sister, to tell her mother to come and have a talk with her, 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 searingly honest novel told in prose that is as precise and unsentimental as it is devastating and brutal. A novel that is at once unlocated and profoundly tethered to place is surely a novel for our times." -- Provided by publisher
Audience General
Notes 2018 Man Booker Prize
Subject City and town life -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction, English.
English fiction -- Irish authors -- 21st century.
Families -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Gossip -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Stalking -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Northern Ireland -- History -- 1968-1998 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092558 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Novels.
LC no. 2018958148
ISBN 0571338747 paperback
0571342736 hardcover
9780571338740 paperback
9780571342730 hardcover