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The North Water
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2016
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The Abstainer
24 editions
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2020
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Incredible Bodies
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2006
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The Manchester Anthology 2014
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X: The Manchester Anthology (The Manchester Anthology, 2022)
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Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism (New American Canon)
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2014
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White River Crossing: A Novel
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White River Crossing
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“He finds the lying comes easy enough, of course. Words are just noises in a certain order, and he can use them any way he wishes. Pigs grunt, ducks quack, and men tell lies: that is how it generally goes.”
― The North Water
― The North Water
“Cleverness, he thinks, will get you nowhere; it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth.”
― The North Water
― The North Water
“Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.”
― The North Water
― The North Water
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