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Bolger's 1990 novel, never before published in the United States, moves between the industrial rigidity of nineteen-eighties Dublin, with its dull suburbs, and the haunted bogs of rural Ireland. Its pages bristle with murder, sexual assault, illegal boxing matches, and rigged elections, but at its center is a friendship, significant for its simplicity, between Hano and Shay, two newly independent young men. ...