Instances

"Eleven-year-old John Egan lives with his mother, father, and grandfather in rural Ireland. He believes he has a gift for lie detection -- and his obsession with uncovering the truth carries the cost of peculiar kind of pain. A piercing and compelling story of disturbed love, Carry Me Done is abo...

Winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Encore Award. This edition comes with an afterword by J. M. Coetzee.John Egan lives with his mother, father and grandmother in rural Ireland. The Guinness Book of Records is his favourite book and he wants to visit Niagara Falls with his mother. But, more t...