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Book review: Falling Animals a universe of private tragedies in an Irish seaside town
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Sheila Armstrong is less interested in narrative tension than documenting grief, cross-hatched like undercurrents in Falling Animals.
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By Sheila Armstrong
Fiction/Bloomsbury/Paperback/229 pages/$28.20/Books Kinokuniya
3 stars
A maudlin, peculiarly Irish tale, Falling Animals begins with the carcass of a dead seal.
