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9780940322790
"[It] takes us into an alien culture...and evokes that kitschy world with spectacularly deadpan humor. In an imperturbable, almost affectless voice, O'Brien relates a boy's coming of age, mainly by focusing on his life with his faded-star parents....O'Brien's old friend the poet Seamus Heaney...provides a shrewd and affectionate introduction."O'Brien, Darcy is the author of 'Way of Life, Like Any Other', published 2001 under ISBN 9780940322790 and ISBN 094032279X.
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