The Parts

The Parts
ISBN-10
0571215718
ISBN-13
9780571215713
Category
Aged women
Pages
457
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Author
Keith Ridgway

Description

An acidic, comic de-mythologising portrait of modern Dublin.

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