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The Devil Wears Farah is a hilarious but thoughtful account of the experiences of one boy growing up in the Ireland of the Seventies. Nestled within a noisy, argumentative, absolutely typical family of that era and that place, the young MacCarthy, with his 'child prodigy capacity for deceit' is a whip-smart witness to his society's slow and blinking emergence into the bright shining world of ... Read more

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