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From the author of The Citadel and in the grand epic tradition of MGM's adaptations, The Green Years is the moving story of a boy's difficult growth to manhood. When young Robert Shannon is orphaned, he leaves his home in Ireland and travels to Scotland, home of his maternal grandparents. Growing up in the home of his stern grandfather (Charles Coburn, in an Academy Award -nominated performance*) is made bearable by his great-grandfathe