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By  year’s end, the veil between blindness and sight, life and death, and  the natural world and the spirit world will prove to be very thin indeed.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42819831529552,"sku":"9780593300282B","price":10.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780593300282-l.jpg?v=1785877542"},{"product_id":"mcglue-9780525522768b","title":"McGlue","description":"Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation - he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. 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I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes--a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is the story of how I disappeared.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. 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