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      Cal

      by Bernard Maclaverty
      Published
      Oct 1984
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      "Bernard MacLaverty's powerful novel is a love story as affecting and tragic as you could want." —USA Today

      When it was first published, Bernard MacLaverty's masterpiece was hailed by Michael Gorra in the New York Times Book Review as "a marvel of technical perfection…a most moving novel whose emotional impact is grounded in a complete avoidance of sentimentality…[It] will become the Passage to India of the Troubles." For Cal, a Northern Irish teenager who, against his will, is involved in the terrible war between Catholics and Protestants, some of the choices are devastatingly simple: he can work in the slaughterhouse that nauseates him or join the dole line; he can brood on his past or plan a future with the beautiful, widowed Marcella for whose grief he shares more than a little responsibility.

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      First Edition Oct 1984 Warner ISBN13 9780446322591 ISBN10 0446322598
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      Apr 1995 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN13 9780393313321 ISBN10 0393313328
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      Mar 1998 Vintage Publications ISBN13 9780099767114 ISBN10 0099767112
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      Oct 2000 Penguin (Canada) ISBN13 9780140817898 ISBN10 0140817891
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      Aug 2017 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN13 9780393354683 ISBN10 0393354687
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      May 2019 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9781784875503 ISBN10 1784875503
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      Aug 1983 Olympic Marketing Corp ISBN13 9780807610701 ISBN10 0807610704
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      Apr 1991 ISIS Large Print Books ISBN13 9781850892885 ISBN10 1850892881
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      Sep 2009 William Heinemann (UK) ISBN13 9780435123369 ISBN10 043512336X
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      Mar 2011 Random House ISBN13 9781446448113 ISBN10 1446448118
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      Nov 1999 Chivers Audio Books ISBN13 9780754003724 ISBN10 0754003728
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