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Beneath the earth : stories / John Boyne.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF BOYN	Adult Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780857523419 (pbk.)
ISBN	0857523414 (pbk.)
Name	Boyne, John, 1971- author.
Title	Beneath the earth : stories / John Boyne.
Published	London Doubleday, 2015.
Description	268 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents	Boy, 19 -- The country you called home -- The schleinermetzenmann -- Empire tour -- Haystack girl -- Rest day -- The vespa -- A good man -- Amsterdam -- Student card -- Araby -- Beneath the Earth.
Summary	In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us, the impossibility of shared loss, the lengths we will go to in order to protect our families and the distance we will run to protect ourselves. Drawing on a host of enthralling characters - a farmer, a cuckold and a teenager exploring his sexuality; good parents, bad parents, writers and soldiers; a student, a rent boy and a hitman - Boyne examines the hopeful and the damaged without prejudice or judgement. This, his first collection of short stories, is some of John Boyne's finest writing to date. It includes 'Rest Day' which won the 2015 Writing.ie Short Story of the Year award in Ireland.
Subjects	Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
Genre	Short stories
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Interpersonal relations -- Fiction . Short stories . See Also: Fiction . Authors: Boyne, John, 1971- .