Cal av Bernard Mac Laverty

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The novel Cal by Bernard Mac Laverty was first published in 1983.

Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple... He can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a future with Marcella. Springing out of the fear and violence of Ulster, Cal is a haunting love story in a land were tenderness and innocence can only flicker briefly in the dark.

About the author:
Bernard Mac Laverty (born in 1942) is a Northern Irish fiction writer and novelist.
Mac Laverty is the author of five novels and seven short story collections. His first novel Lamb was published in 1980. It is about faith, relationships and love. It was followed by Cal in 1983. This is an examination of love in the midst of violence. Grace Notes, which was published in 1997, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. It is about the conflict between a desire to compose and motherhood. The Anatomy School (2001) is a comedic coming-of-age novel.

ISBN-13: 9780099767114.
ISBN-10: 0099767112.