![]() ![]() Others did care though, and some were those who, in the parlance, ‘knew me to see but not to speak to’ and I was being talked about because there was a rumour started by them, or more likely by first brother-in-law, that I had been having an affair with this milkman and that I was eighteen and he was forty-one. ![]() He had been shot by one of the state hit squads and I did not care about the shooting of this man. ![]() The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to shoot me was the same day the milkman died. The standout novel on this year’s Man Booker list, Anna Burns’ wonderful Milkman begins: Winner - rightfully so - of the 2018 Man Booker Prize!īut it was a game - more toy soldiers on toy battlefields, more toy trains in the attic, hard men in their teens, hard men in their twenties, hard men in their thirties, in their forties, with the mentality being toys even if it was far from toys these men were playing with. ![]()
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