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Winterwood

By: Patrick McCabe
Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
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Publisher's summary

Highly acclaimed suspense writer Patrick McCabe has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for both The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto.

In Winterwood, Redmond Hatch takes his family on vacation to the secluded mountains where he grew up, only to have his life shattered by a disastrous chain of events that quickly spirals out of control.

©2006 Patrick McCabe (P)2007 Recorded Books

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"One of Ireland's finest ..." (New York Times Book Review)
"A dark genius of incongruity and the grotesque" (The Sunday Observer)

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A good tale, significantly marred.

McCabe is an excellent writer. He's good enough to drop gimmicks like floating timelines. Leave those to the comic books, no? Experiment for the sake of experimentation ruined this book.

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