Word: attracta
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...self-conscious respectability that provide the surface tension for most of his stories. Generally, what is amusing in the author's England can turn ugly in Ireland (both north and south), where bitter years and an unfinished present conspire to drive people mad. The elderly schoolteacher in Attracta cannot help sharing with her pupils the goriest details of the latest Belfast atrocity: I.R.A. terrorists mailed the head of a British officer to his wife, who joined the Women's Peace Movement and was later raped by the men who had killed her husband. The children in the class...
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