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The Waking Of Willie Ryan - Sean Hewitt Paperback / softback passionateLong overlooked but now recognised as a quietly radical masterpiece,The Waking of Willie Ryanreveals John Broderick as one of the most incisive chroniclers of mid century Ireland. Set in a midlands town where beauty and brutality uneasily coexist, the novel follows the return of Willie Ryan once scapegoated for his relationships with men, institutionalised, and written out of local memory who comes home to die and, in doing so, unsettles the pieties