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A quiet, engaging novel about the death of a priest in 1950s Ireland and a world on the cusp of change.

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´The Apollo choices have been masterful. The list is thought-provoking, eye-opening, inspired and inspiring´ The Big Issue .

At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born.

Father Tom Conroy - a spiky, difficult man - dies at a reunion of his seminary colleagues. As this masterly novel unfolds, we are taken through the years that formed this troublesome priest, who knew his life had been a failure. The Hungry Grass is a sharply witty and moving novel of a world on the cusp of change.

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´The Apollo choices have been masterful. The list is thought-provoking, eye-opening, inspired and inspiring´ The Big Issue .

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Kiberd, Declan
Declan Kiberd is Ireland´s greatest living critic, internationally celebrated for his work on literature and colonialism. He is the author of Inventing Ireland , Ulysses and Us and Irish Classics . He has won many literary prizes and is currently Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame in the USA.

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