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ALAN SILLITOE Notts novelist closing the cycle
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For someone who was once voted the most hated man in Northern Ireland. Eoin McNamee seems remarkably cheery. The aforementioned accolade was a result of his debut novel. Resurrection Man, or more precisely the film adaptation of it. for which McNamee wrote the screenplay. It was a fictionalised version of real life events set in Belfast during the 19705. and got quite a lot of backs up.
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