Close To Home Michael Magee. Michael Magee is the fiction editor of the Tangerine and a graduate of the creative writing PhD programme at Queen's University, Belfast After Sean attacks a stranger at a party, and is sentenced to 200 hours of community service, he is forced to reckon.
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In Michael Magee's visceral debut novel, "Close to Home," a young man commits an assault that jeopardizes his plans for the future. Michael Magee is the fiction editor of the Tangerine and a graduate of the creative writing PhD programme at Queen's University, Belfast
Waterstones Irish Book of the Year 2023 is Close to Home by Belfast author Michael Magee
Michael Magee was born and grew up in West Belfast We present an extract from Close To Home, the debut novel by Michael Magee Close to Home begins with this sudden act of violence and expands into a startling portrait of working-class Ireland under the long shadow of the Troubles
. He is the fiction editor of The Tangerine, and his work has appeared in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, and The Lifeboat, and in The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working-Class Writing Close to Home is an extraordinary work of fiction about deciding what kind of a man you want to be and finding your place in the scarred city you call home.
Close to Home by Michael Magee Waterstones. Drawing from his own experiences, Michael Magee examines the forces which keep young working class men in harm's way, in a debut novel which shines with intelligence and humanity on every page Close to Home begins with this sudden act of violence and expands into a startling portrait of working-class Ireland under the long shadow of the Troubles