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David Payne

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By David Payne

Barefoot to Avalon: A Brother's Story

Payne, David · 2015

Hillsborough novelist David Payne's memoir of his younger brother, who died in a car accident in 2000, and of the years that followed, in which Payne's drinking became an addiction, his work stalled and his marriage came apart. The book takes up grief between brothers, bipolar disorder in the family and the author's own alcoholism. Published in a first edition of 2015, 294 pages with illustrations.

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