Mostly Hero

Anna Burns

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Book cover for Mostly Hero
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Mostly Hero

Mostly Hero

Anna Burns

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNER AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MILKMAN

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 abstracted 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.

Written by Anna Burns before she completed her dazzling Booker-winning novel Milkman, Mostly Hero is a hilarious, witty, hell-raising romp through a world of superheroes.

Critical Reviews

"A farce with guts and truth that aims for the heart."--Kirkus


"Burns zooms through the comic action scenes and slyly reveals what's truly at stake: two people learning to see themselves and their problems as merely ordinary. It adds up to a charming metaphorical love story."--Publishers Weekly


"Those who stick with Anna Burns' hectic, stream-of-consciousness writing, not dissimilar to that of Eimear McBride or Flann O'Brien, are more than rewarded. Her writing has been described as 'point-blank poetry, ' and rightly so." --Irish Independent


"Anna Burns is part of a movement of new and established female Belfast writers."--Adrian McKinty, Irish Times

Publishing Information

Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pub date: 2026-05-19
Length: 144 pages

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