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" The devil's footprints : "
John Burnside.
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BL
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785276
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b605291
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| Main Entry
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John Burnside.
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The devil's footprints : : a novel\ John Burnside.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed. in the U.S. of America
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New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, ©2007.
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224 pages ; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0385525559
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: 0385525559
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: 9780385525558
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: 9780385525558
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| Abstract
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Michael Gardiner has lived in Coldhaven all his life yet still feels like an outsider. Married but rather distant from his wife, he reads in the local paper that a school friend, Moira Birnie, has killed herself and her two sons by setting their car on fire; but she has spared her fourteen-year-old daughter, Hazel. Michael uneasily recalls his past connections to Moira. As teenagers, Michael and Moira had a brief romance, yet more troubling to Michael is the fact that he was responsible for the death of Moira's brother, the town bully. In the wake of the tragedy, Michael becomes obsessed with Hazel, who is just old enough to be his daughter.
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Devil -- Fiction.
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Scotland -- Fiction.
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Suicide victims -- Fiction.
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PR6052.U6683J646 2007
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John Burnside
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