The Contractors

Published
Dec 1993
Main Genre
General Fiction General Fiction
Pages
460

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This is the story of Dan Murray, who emigrated to England in 1952. He finds work as a building labourer and in time he becomes a building contractor.John B. Keane captures the turbulent, bawdy, anarchic life of Irish contractors and labourers as they try to make it big in England. Told in his usual hilarious and bulls-eye accurate style.

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First Edition Dec 1993 Mercier Press ISBN 1856350584
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Jan 1993 Mercier Press ISBN B073XTPWX8
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Jan 1993 Mercier Press ISBN 1781170231
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