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A signed paperback 1986 edition ( nitial publication in 1965) of Lee Dunne's Dublin classic Goodbye to the Hill.
This is a rich book, narrated by young Paddy Maguire, 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 and wry humour that permeated the hard times of Dublin's inner city life.
With a dedication, dated 1992 signed in blue ink - ''To Paddy, Happy 18th, Breda and Lee Dunne 1992'' There is spotting and some staining to the page block ends, binding tight, spine uncreased.
