No bones
Burns, Anna2002
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Amelia of the Lovett family of Catholic Belfast is the narrator of this blackly comic novel. It traces the tragicomic fortunes of the family from 1969 to the late 1990s, through the violent events in their lives and their city. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2002A stunning debut novel about a little girl growing up in Belfast, from the author of the Man Booker Prize winning novel, The Milkman. 'Marvellous: shocking, moving, evocative' Daily MailEvery single night and every single day Amelia goes upstairs to look at her treasure: a miniature plastic sheep, a Black Queen chess piece, a penny prayer for serenity, a tube of glitter - and thirty-seven black rubber bullets she's collected ever since the British Army started firing them.
Main title:
No bones / Anna Burns.
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Imprint:
London : Flamingo, 2002.
Collation:
321 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2001.
ISBN:
9780006552383 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
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BRN:
735612