The Best New Irish Short Stories 2005 (Best New Irish Short Stories)
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Including new stories by Neil Jordan, Gerard Donovan, Edna O'Brien, Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann, Claire Keegan, Colm Toibin, Niall Williams, and Mary Morrissy, The Best New Irish Short Stories of 2005 presents the finest contemporary literary voices in a grand tradition stretching back to Yeats, Wilde, and Joyce. In Doyle's The Joke, a middle-aged man sits listening to his wife's conversation with a friend, at once bitter and sweetly yearning; in Sophia Hillan's The Cocktail Hour, a couple wander the night haunted and lost in a reverie of the Jazz A in Bernard MacLaverty's Matters of Life and Death, two young brothers spend the night at the house of the local doctor and his wife, and together the four of them end up in a revelrous late-night dance... This landmark anthology brings together some of Ireland's best-loved writers with a dazzling array a new talent. From Dublin to the New York, from rural Peru to the mountains of the Himalayas, these pieces collectively and individually demonstrate the complexity of emotion and memory that is associated with the very finest short stories, and bear testimony to the fact that the form is still alive and flourishing. Book jacket.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0786716363
ISBN13:9780786716364
Release Date:September 2005
Publisher:Da Capo Press
Length:325 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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