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Michael Magee: Close to Home [2023] paperback ZFCRI we waste our time onDevastating, tough and tender, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by violence and poverty but also by the courage to love and to survive Anthony grew up brawling with the headcases round the estate, torching stolen cars, beaking school. His little brother Sean was supposed to be different. He was supposed to leave and never come back. But Sean does come back. Finished with university, he finds Anthony's drinking spiralling out of control as