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The Last Romantic Out of Belfast

Protestant Belfast is throbbing with patriotism and thrilled by the presence of sexy, gum-chewing GIs. The war is a romantic backdrop to lessons and play, but Joe McCabe, youngest child of a working class family, turns for his romance to poetry and history books and discovers private worlds, far from the streets and playground. Sam Keery?s novel is a warm and intricate tapestry of an era and a sensitive account of a boy?s formative years. The author is perceptive and unsentimental about the political forces that control Joe?s community but this is essentially a human, personal story ? of the delicacy of first loves, of a boy?s secret fears and shames, of the vivid territory of his imagination.