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Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland
Category: Fiction
John Egan is a misfit, a twelve-year-old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant. He has been able to detect lies for as long as he can remember and diligently keeps track of them, large and small, in a log of lies. With an obsession for the Guinness Book of World Records, a keenly inquisit ...Show more
Carry Me Down by M J Hyland
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. John Egan lives with his mother, father and grandmother in rural Ireland. The Guinness Book of Records is his favourite book and he wants to visit Niagara Falls with his mother. But, more than anything, he is determined to become a world-famous lie detecto ...Show more
Carry Me Down Text Classic by M. J. Hyland
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
John Egan lives with his mother, father and grandmother in rural Ireland. The Guinness Book of Records is his favourite book and he wants to visit Niagara Falls with his mother. But, more than anything, he is determined to become a world-famous lie detector, almost at any cost. Carry Me Down is written ...Show more
How the Light Gets In: Popular Penguins by M.J. Hyland
Category: Classic | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN is a cleverly observed, complex story of a girl on the verge of adulthood, whose world--like Holden Caulfield’s before her--is full of mixed messages. Louise Connor, a precocious and unhappy Australian 16-year-old, is offered a place as an exchange student in America. But when Lou’ ...Show more
How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland
Category: Fiction
HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN is a cleverly observed, complex story of a girl on the verge of adulthood, whose world--like Holden Caulfield’s before her--is full of mixed messages. Louise Connor, a precocious and unhappy Australian 16-year-old, is offered a place as an exchange student in America. But when Lou’ ...Show more
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee; M. J. Hyland (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
If none is left who will pronounce judgment on such a life, if the Great Judge of All has given up judging and withdrawn to pare his nails, then he will pronounce it himself: a wasted chance. When a bicycle accident causes photographer Paul Rayment to lose a leg, he must reexamine his life so far, and ...Show more
This Is How by M. J. Hyland
Category: Romance
All actions have consequences. This is how life goes. Patrick is a loner, an intelligent but disturbed young man struggling to find his place in the world. He ventures out on his own, and, as he begins to find happiness, he commits an act of violence that sends his life horribly and irreversibly out of ...Show more
This Is How by M. J. Hyland
Category: Fiction
M. J. Hyland is the award winning and Man Booker shortlisted author of Carry Me Down. Her third novel, This Is How, is a psychologically probing and deeply moving account of a man at odds with the world. Patrick Oxtoby is a perpetual outsider longing to find his niche. When his fianc#65533; breaks off t ...Show more
This is How by M.J. Hyland
Category: Fiction
Patrick Oxtoby is an outsider longing to fit in. Patrick struggles to make friends. He can't shake the feeling that his acquaintances are conspiring against him, fracturing his fragile personality and prompting him to take a course of action that alters his life. A mesmerizing portrait of a man whose un ...Show more
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