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John Burnside - A Lie About My Father (2006)

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My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible.

John Burnside

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Born: March 19, 1955
Died: May 29, 2024 (aged 69)
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