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Brilliant! A tale of Ireland, the people of a fishing village, and the sometimes terrible things that happened there. The harshness of the life, the closeness of the people, and the things they have to do to survive create the atmosphere of the book. The main character has the reader's sympathy from the start- although his mother clearly prefers his brother- he has a heart of gold and always stands by his people, though the final part of the story nearly destroys him.
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