Before the Wax Hardened Book cover type:Paperback Growth is simply an increase

Growth is simply an increase in the size of the monetarized part of the social arrangements by which we live

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In south Kilkenny

Before the Wax Hardened Book cover type:Paperback Growth is simply an increaseOn his first trip abroad, Adrian Kenny observes that the signs are in one language only. There is no need for translation: there is nothing behind. Not so in his suburban childhood and adolescence, where Mayo is behind Dublin, poor fields behind bourgeois drawing rooms, wildness behind authority. Attached to both, the attempts of Adrian Kenny to reconcile them take him from close certainty to total collapse in the year of change America 1968. What was