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Ballina Stories and Poems

Ballina Stories and Poems

Ballina Stories and Poems

Aubrey Malone

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Editorial:
Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2018
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9780244145606
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Aubrey Malone was born in Ballina and lived there until his father, the well-known solicitor Hugh Dillon-Malone, retired in 1969 and the family moved to Dublin. Ballina Stories and Poems is a mixture of fact and fiction in which he reminisces on the people and places he encountered during his formative years.

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