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Cal

Cal

Cal Paperback - 1998

by Maclaverty, Bernard

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  • Title Cal
  • Author Maclaverty, Bernard
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage Books, London
  • Publication date 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR001417288
  • ISBN 9780099767114 / 0099767112
  • Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.4 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 1.02 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823
  • Quantity available 13

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Reader reviews for Cal

From the publisher

For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple... He can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a future with Marcella. Springing out of the fear and violence of Ulster, Cal is a haunting love story in a land were tenderness and innocence can only flicker briefly in the dark.

First line

He stood at the back gateway of the abattoir, his hands thrust into his pockets, his stomach rigid with the ache of want.

Media reviews

"Simple humanity, eloquently caught... Though Cal is a bleak novel, there is a flicker of lyricism running through it, like the sun shining through the shattered windows of a ruined church." --New York Times

About the author

Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written five previous collections of stories and five novels, including Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Midwinter Break, the Bord Gis Energy Irish Novel of the Year. He has written versions of his fiction for other media - radio and television plays, screenplays and libretti.
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