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==Literary fiction==
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|author=Roddy Doyle
|title=The Dead Republic
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Henry left in 1922, after the Irish Civil War. It is now 1951. After his long exile, nothing is as he expected. He revisits an old home to find no trace that a house ever stood there. The project that has brought him back is not as he expected. The Quiet Man will be a hugely successful film for John Ford, but the life portrayed in it is not Henry Smart's life, and the portrait of Irish politics and everyday life in the film is not one he recognises. In his late 40s, he feels he is an old man already, alone with his memories of the wife and family he lost.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090097</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James Kelman
