BURNS, Anna. Millkman. London: Faber & Faber, 2018.
8vo. Publisher's navy boards, spine lettered in white; in the original pictorial dust wrapper (not price-clipped); pp. [vi], 348, [xiv]; light bumping to head and foot of spine; a little creasing to head of wrapper; else a near-fine copy.
First edition. Winner of the Booker Prize, 'Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences' (front flap). Burns's setting is based in Belfast during thee Troubles, as the protagonist navigates through a turbulent period, and told through obscure information and distinct lack of names of any character.
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