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Winner of the Frank OConnor International Short Story Award Winner of the Guardian First Book Award Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature A stunning introduction to a singular new voice in contemporary fiction.Enter the small, rural town of Glanbeigh, a place whose fate took a downturn with the Celtic Tiger, a desolate spot where buffoonery and tension simmer and erupt, and booze-sodden boredom fills the corners of every pub and nightclub. Here, and in the towns beyond, the young live hard and wear the scars. Amongst them, theres jilted Jimmy, whose best friend Tug is the terror of the town and Jimmys sole company in his search for the missing Clancy kid Bat, a lovesick soul with a face like a bowl of mashed up spuds even before Nubbin Tanseys boot kicked it in and Arm, a young and desperate criminal whose destiny is shaped when he and his partner, Dympna, fail to carry out a job.



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Colin Barrett

Colin Barrett was born in 1982 and grew up in County Mayo. In 2009 he completed his MA in Creative Writing at University College Dublin and was awarded the Penguin Ireland Prize. His work has been published in The Stinging Fly magazine and in the anthologies, Sharp Sticks, Driven Nails (Stinging Fly Press, 2010) and Town and Country (Faber and Faber, 2013) .



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