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A big red hand of fire reaching up into the darkness, that's what it looked like. And then it came down. The hand came reaching down towards us, the fingers of the fire stretching out over the woods in all directions towards Ballogie, and setting the timber ablaze wherever it touched.... And nearer it came, nearer, the hand was closing in about us, your granny and me, it was closing its fingers tighter, tighter.The quality of his listening even as he dreams of beer is part of what redeems Paddy, what makes him stand out from the guys around him, a creepy bunch who like to make jokes about having sex with sheep and raping girls. Throughout the book, women respond to him in an almost maternal way, offering him rides, giving him free food at the pub. Through these gestures of kindness, we come to understand him from the outside, even as the novel is written solely (and masterfully) in his chattery, contagious first person. Infatuated with Shona, who is in love with her abusive boyfriend, Paddy rides around with her in the middle of the night and tries to talk reason into her, tries to tell funny jokes and get her to look at him instead. Inevitably she ends up going back for more abuse. In the remote and violent backwater of Blackden, Paddy is a gentle soul, a fatherless boy on the verge of becoming a man, on the verge of seeing past the horizon of the only place he has ever known. --Emily White
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