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Inside

By Kenneth J. Harvey

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A taut, masterful novel of friends and enemies, family and fate, and the relative nature of freedom.

When Myrden returns to his tough St. John’s neighbourhood after fourteen years in prison, he is swarmed by old friends and enemies, and a wife who hasn’t exactly been waiting for hContinue

A taut, masterful novel of friends and enemies, family and fate, and the relative nature of freedom.

When Myrden returns to his tough St. John’s neighbourhood after fourteen years in prison, he is swarmed by old friends and enemies, and a wife who hasn’t exactly been waiting for him. A cruel twist of fate has made Myrden famous: any wrongfully accused man released after such a lengthy incarceration is soon to be rich.

He clings to his young granddaughter and an old love, hoping his coming settlement can free them from the cycles of revenge and failure that have marked his life. But old scores are not so easily left unsettled.

Written in abrupt prose that brilliantly reflects Myrden’s cautious evaluation of everyone and everything in the overwhelming outside world, Inside pulls the reader forward with the quiet, creeping gravity of Greek tragedy. It is a story about the best kind of friend, the life a man can’t believe he deserves and the value of trying, no matter how doomed he seems to fail, to bring hope into the lives of those still worth loving.

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    Inside by Kenneth J Harvey 224pp, Harvill Secker, £16.99 A bleak coastal town, a man freed from prison after his case is overturned, old scores to settle, a million dollars coming in compensation... In outline, Kenneth J Harvey's Inside, which comes ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Book review: Kenneth J. Harvey's *Inside*

    Inside Kenneth J. Harvey Harcourt Hardcover 304 pages October 2007 Released after fourteen years of incarceration for a murder he didn’t commit thanks to DNA technology, Mister Myrden has adapted to life behind bars, constricting his thoughts and act ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 288 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 067931427X
  • ISBN-13: 9780679314271
  • Publisher: Random House Canada
  • Pub date: Mar 28, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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