# The Abstainer

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- Book: [The Abstainer](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcguire/the-abstainer) ([The Abstainer.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcguire/the-abstainer.md))
- Authors: [Ian McGuire](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcguire)
- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-05-9313-388-0
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2021-06-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

“This is Dickens in the present tense, Dickens for the twenty-first century.”—Roddy Doyle, The New York Times Book Review An Irishman in nineteenth-century England is forced to...