Mostly Hero

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By Anna Burns Still eighty-two, still with fifty-seven bullets in her, still dying, and with a blood-trail resembling a post-structuralist anti-principle of a traditional abstracte d countercomposition, she was softly cursing and willing herself not to die.Follow Hero the superhero as he saves the world from villains and falls in love with a femme fatale named Femme Fatale. 'Mostly Hero' is a hilarious, witty, hell-raising romp through a world of superheroes. 112 pages. Paperback Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of two previous novels, No Bones and Little Constructions, and of the novella Mostly Hero. No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Milkman has, to date, won the Man Booker Prize 2018, the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and the International Dublin Literary Award 2020, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize and the Rathbone's Folio Prize. Show more