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Bogmail (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)

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The Novel

The action of Bogmail, the author’s first published novel, takes place in a small fictional community in his native County Donegal, Ireland’s most northwesterly and most remote county. One of the book’s most immediately attractive features is its loving evocation of this environment’s terrain, social structure, flora, and fauna. Such material, however, is not included merely to pad the plot by means of picturesque but self-indulgent travelogue. On the contrary, it forms an explicit contrast to the dark doings at the heart of the narrative.

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