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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Wild Decembers about Cloontha, Wild, Decembers with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary? Start with the sentence 'Wild Decembers begins lushly with a prologue that's as much a prose poem as a map, full of cautionary demarcations'.
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conversations.value: Wild Decembers begins lushly with a prologue that's as much a prose poem as a map, full of cautionary demarcations. "Cloontha it is called--a locality within the bending of an arm," the author writes of her setting in western Ireland. With its "relics of battles of the long ago" and memories of the potato famine still in the soil, it's clear that "the enemy can come at any hour." This time, the enemy appears in the form of Mick Bugler--described variously as a "dark horse," a "caveman," and "the Shepherd"--who has returned from Australia to claim his late uncle's farm. To Joseph Brennan, as native to tiny Cloontha as its relics, the stranger who has taken possession of the farm next to his is briefly a novelty, less briefly a friend, and finally excites in him a fear and a love of boundaries that proves murderous.