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Turtle by Gary Bryson

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May 2009, no. 311

Turtle by Gary Bryson

Allen & Unwin, $27.95 pb, 311 pp

Turtle by Gary Bryson

by
May 2009, no. 311

When Donald ‘Donny’ Pinelli’s mother dies, he returns to Glasgow and confronts his past. Donny has been scarred by a dysfunctional family: mad clairvoyant mother; absent gangster father; shallow brother; belligerent sister. As a set-up, this is not particularly original, but Gary Bryson’s novel, Turtle, is full of surprises.

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