Burning Your Own

✍ Scribed by Glenn Patterson

• Book ID: 110803795
• Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 296 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780856402111
• ASIN: B00H7Z4534

✦ Synopsis

It is the summer of 1969 and ten-year-old Mal is finding it difficult to settle into his new home, a housing estate on the outskirts of Belfast. He befriends a brash and rebellious teenager, Francy, who revels in his own status as an outsider and has set up camp in the local dump.

But this is no ordinary summer – the civil rights marches are beginning, and the simmering sectarian tensions of the Larkview estate are set to erupt, hastening Mal's painful, shocking loss of innocence.

A critically acclaimed classic by one of today's best Irish writers.The book also contains an essay by Glenn Patterson and a critical essay by Carlo Gébler. Glenn Patterson is also the author of Fat Lad, The International and The Third Party, all published by Blackstaff Press.