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- Publisher: Poolbeg Publications (Aug 2000)
- ISBN-10: 1853719544
- ISBN-13: 978-1853719547
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.8 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,428,727 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A dysfunctional rural family - and what it takes to survive.,
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This review is from: Us (Paperback)
Some of the topics covered in this book make for uneasy reading: incest, child abuse, pregnancy and suicide. The first person narrated chapters alternate between different members of the family, giving a nicely rounded view to their perspectives, although spoiling any sense of flow or rhythm. A shoal of red herrings sit at the novel's centre, which is much the fault of the characters inability to communicate with each other, as stressed by the varying p-o-v's. A deceptively simple debut novel, it will be interesting to see where the author goes next; maybe investigating his military roots?
3.0 out of 5 stars
...has potential,
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This review is from: Us (Paperback)
To the wind-whipped plains of the Curragh, then, for a curious and sombre yarn about a loopily dysfunctional family, their lurking murky secrets and their multifarious and tangled allegiances. A soldier, Malone has come relatively late to fiction and it seems to have done him no harm. His short stories have been acclaimed for their quiet, wry observation and it's a trick he manages to sustain for much of this debut novel. Us is by no means a masterpiece but it certainly suggests that Malone has the potential and restraint to achieve some accomplished work from here on in.
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An unusual family,
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This review is from: Us (Paperback)
the story of an unusual family, told from its individual members, from teenage twins, well-meaning Morris and quick witted Victor to Milly, the mother horrified by what her family has become. With its themes of incest, suicide and general dysfunction, at times Us resembles a less-sickening version of Ian Banks The Wasp Factory - there's a similarity of tone, that mixture of ture nastiness and black humour. But this is ultimately a distinctly Irish book - and a very good one too.
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