THE AUTHOR is best known for The Speckled People (2003) in which he recalled his eccentric childhood, growing up in a Dublin suburb with his German mother and Irish father. The inevitable search for belonging that defined Hamilton’s memoir has become central to much of his subsequent fiction. Similar themes of displacement and alienation are… Read more »
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