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No Bones Book
No Bones, Anna Burns' magnificent debut, is a heartbreaking but astonishingly funny account of growing up in Belfast during the "Troubles". Without meaning to diminish this wonderful and inventive work, it's possibly more accurate to describe it as a series of interlocking stories rather as a novel. At its centre is Amelia Lovett, a naïve, sensitive girl who matures, although never losing her youthful incredulity, as the book progresses. Her, often tragic life story is recounted through an array of characters, vernacular voices and episodes that with mordant humour track the sheer brutality of the era. Burns unflinchingly portrays the casualness, even banality, of the violence. The nine year-old Amelia easily drifts from collecting buttons to plastic bullets; teenage girls shoot each … read more...
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