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MOUNT MERRION
Justin Quinn
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Description for MOUNT MERRION
Paperback. Declan and Sinead Boyle are pillars of society - born into prosperous families, educated at Dublin's finest schools, dwellers in a fine house in a leafy suburb. So why are they in so much trouble? Declan wants to serve his country - but he also wants to serve his own ambition. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Justin Quinn's Mount Merrion: a gripping family story spanning half a century, in the mould of Jonathan Franzen and John Lanchester.
Declan and Sinead Boyle are pillars of society - born into prosperous families, educated at Dublin's finest schools, dwellers in a fine house in a leafy suburb. So why are they in so much trouble?
Declan wants to serve his country - but he also wants to serve his own ambition. Sinead wonders if she is allowed, in the Ireland of the sixties and seventies, to have ambitions at all. Their son, Owen, seems intent on squandering ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241964064
SKU
KRF2233111
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Justin Quinn
Justin Quinn was born, raised and educated in Dublin. Mount Merrion is his first novel.
Reviews for MOUNT MERRION
[Quinn's] assured debut plays out over half a century - a state-of-the-nation novel as told through the fast-changing fortunes of middle-class married life ... his novel is filled with perfectly judged moments
Independent
Imaginative and compassionate ... Mount Merrion is about how a decent man, anxious to play by the rules - even if they're someone else's rules ... Read more
Independent
Imaginative and compassionate ... Mount Merrion is about how a decent man, anxious to play by the rules - even if they're someone else's rules ... Read more