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Date Added: May 16, 2008 12:36:02 AM
Jeff Torrington was the author of many ephemeral short stories and two lasting works of fiction, Swing Hammer Swing! and The Devil's Carousel. The former, which had taken him 30 years to write, was published in 1992 to great acclaim and won the Whitbread Prize for First Novel and then for Book of the Year.

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