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A paperback 1986 edition (the initial publication was in 1965) of Lee Dunne's Dublin classic Goodbye to the Hill. Published by Wolfhound Press.
This is a rich mix of memoir and novel, narrated by young Paddy Maguire, telling of his life growing into young adulthood in a Dublin slum of the late 1930s and 40s Ireland. Consider it a Dublin version of The Catcher in the Rye with lustful, lusty, thirsty, hard-working Paddy—a character as memorable as Holden Caulfield or Studs Lonigan—drolly detailing his adventurous adolescence.
Goodbye to the Hill tells the story of a young man desperate to escape the confines of poverty and stifling mores, yet is an uplifting story, peppered with picaresque incidents, colourful language, and captures the dark humour that permeated the hard times of Dublin's inner city life.
There is spotting and some staining to the page block ends, binding tight, spine uncreased.
