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Luminous and devastating, a portrait of modern masculinity as
shaped by class, by trauma, and by silence, but also by the courage
to love and to survive Sean's brother Anthony is a hard man. When
they were kids their ma did her best to keep him out of trouble but
you can't say anything to Anto. Sean was supposed to be different.
He was supposed to leave and never come back. But Sean does come
back. Arriving home after university, he finds Anthony's drinking
is worse than ever. Meanwhile the jobs in Belfast have vanished,
Sean's degree isn't worth the paper it's written on and no one will
give him the time of day. One night he loses control and assaults a
stranger at a party, and everything is tipped into chaos. Close to
Home witnesses the aftermath of that night, as Sean attempts to
make sense of who he has become, and to reckon with the
relationships that have shaped him, for better and worse. 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
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.
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Close to Home
Michael Magee
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AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST 2023 Luminous and devastating, a
portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by class, by trauma, and
by silence, but also by the courage to love and to survive
'Staggeringly humane, unfaltering, taut and tender... [It] feels
like that rarest of things: a genuinely necessary book' Guardian
'Every detail rings true, every character is fleshy and real and
heartbreaking... Michael Magee has a remarkable talent' Sunday
Times Sean's brother Anthony is a hard man. When they were kids
their ma did her best to keep him out of trouble but you can't say
anything to Anto. Sean was supposed to be different. He was
supposed to leave and never come back. But Sean does come back.
Arriving home after university, he finds Anthony's drinking is
worse than ever. Meanwhile the jobs in Belfast have vanished,
Sean's degree isn't worth the paper it's written on and no one will
give him the time of day. One night he loses control and assaults a
stranger at a party, and everything is tipped into chaos. Close to
Home witnesses the aftermath of that night, as Sean attempts to
make sense of who he has become, and to reckon with the
relationships that have shaped him, for better and worse. 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
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.
Devastating, tough and tender, a portrait of modern masculinity as
shaped by violence and poverty but also by the courage to love and
to survive Anthony grew up brawling with the headcases round the
estate, torching stolen cars, beaking school. His little brother
Sean was supposed to be different. He was supposed to leave and
never come back. But Sean does come back. Finished with university,
he finds Anthony's drinking spiralling out of control as the dark
shadow of his childhood catches up on him. Meanwhile the jobs in
Belfast have vanished and no one will give Sean the time of day.
One night he loses it and assaults a stranger at a party, and
everything is tipped into chaos. Close to Home witnesses the
aftermath of this mistake, as Sean attempts to make sense of who he
has become, and to find a way through the rubble. And it maps, with
great compassion, the forces which keep young working class men in
harm's way, the silences that exist in the gaps between what is
sayable, and the formidable courage required to survive.
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The Brood (Blu-ray disc)
Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed, Art Hindle, Cindy Hinds, Nuala Fitzgerald, …
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Cult horror directed by David Cronenberg. Frank Carveth (Art
Hindle)'s wife Nola (Samantha Eggar) is being treated at an
institute run by the eccentric psychologist Dr Raglan (Oliver
Reed), who is known for using bizarre techniques to break down
defensive barriers in the psyche of his patients. After Nola's
parents are brutally killed and his daughter returns from a visit
to her mother covered in bruises, Frank comes to suspect that his
wife and Raglan are up to no good. What he discovers is stranger
still: a group of cloned midgets, apparently spurred on by Nora's
psychopathic rages, are responsible for the attacks. Since no one
else will believe him, it is up to Frank to try and put an end to
the violence...
The Contemporary Law Enforcement Anthology: Challenges and
Opportunities for Today's Officers provides students with a
carefully selected collection of readings that address issues
related to the professional workforce in law enforcement. The text
emphasizes that people are behind the policies, practices, and laws
in our communities, and as such, it is critical to hire
well-qualified and diverse candidates who have a desire and passion
for public service. The anthology examines the importance of
developing a recruiting system for new practitioners in the field
of criminal justice. Dedicated chapters cover the progression of
diversity in the workforce, ethics and integrity, trends in
data-driven law enforcement, community policing and problem-solving
policing, and transnational crime and terrorism. The final chapter
features readings that discuss contemporary and future trends in
law enforcement, including big data, the Fourth Amendment, and
secrecy, subpoenas, and surveillance. At the close of each chapter,
discussion questions encourage reflection, dialogue, and learning.
The Contemporary Law Enforcement Anthology is an exemplary resource
for courses in law enforcement administration, policing, and
criminal justice.
What moves me most about Cinders of My Better Angels is how it
illuminates our ordinary lives, how it depicts that illness makes
us not less ourselves, but more so. In this incisive collection,
direct, smart, darkly humorous poetry mines the gems of our fragile
mortality with courageous, resolute spirit. Through Michael Magee's
superb mastery of craft, the speaker of the poems and the readers
become as one, all of us united under the same moon's watchful eye,
afflicted yet determined, ailing yet healing, "hoping for rescue to
come along / in the shape of a period." -Lana Hechtman Ayers,
author of A New Red
The first three episodes of the children's animated series about a
group of friendly raccoons trying to save their beautiful home in
Evergreen Forest from the greedy aardvark industrialist, Cyril
Sneer. Episodes comprise: 'Surprise Attack', ' Going It Alone' and
'A Night to Remember'.
Emancipating Pragmatism is a radical rereading of Emerson that
posits African-American culture, literature, and jazz as the very
continuation and embodiment of pragmatic thought and democratic
tradition. It traces Emerson's philosophical legacy through the
19th and 20th centuries to discover how Emersonian thought
continues to inform issues of race, aesthetics, and poetic
discourse. Emerson's pragmatism derives from his abolitionism,
Michael Magee argues, and any pragmatic thought that aspires toward
democracy cannot ignore and must reckon with its racial roots.
Magee looks at the ties between pragmatism and African-American
culture as they manifest themselves in key texts and movements,
such as William Carlos Williams's poetry; Ralph Ellison's discourse
in Invisible Man and Juneteenth and his essays on jazz; the poetic
works of Robert Creeley, Amiri Baraka, and Frank O'Hara; as well as
the ""new jazz"" being forged at clubs like The Five Spot in New
York. Ultimately, Magee calls into question traditional maps of
pragmatist lineage and ties pragmatism to the avant-garde American
tradition.
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