Description:Nostalgic, dark, comic, iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories written in the last sixty years, by authors from Elizabeth Bowen and Frank O’Connor to Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry. With a pithy and passionate introduction by Enright, The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades of social change, and shows the ease and pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short story form. There is no truth so telling as a small truth, or so much fun.The road to the shore / Michael McLaverty --The pram / Roddy Doyle --An attack of hunger / Maeve Brennan --Summer voices / John Banville --Summer night / Elizabeth Bowen --Music at Annahullion / Eugene McCabe --Naming the names / Anne Devlin --Shame / Keith Ridgway --Memory and desire / Val Mulkerns --The mad Lomasneys / Frank O'Connor --Walking away / Philip Ó Ceallaigh --Villa Marta / Clare Boylan --Lilacs / Mary Lavin --Meles vulgaris / Patrick Boyle --The trout / Seán Ó Faoláin --Night in Tunisia / Neil Jordan --Sister Imelda / Edna O'Brien --The key / John McGahern --A priest in the family / Colm Tóibín --The supremacy of grief / Hugo Hamilton --The swing of things / Jennifer C Cornell --Train tracks / Aidan Mathews --See the tree, how big it's grown / Kevin Barry --Visit / Gerard Donovan --Everything in this country must / Colum McCann --Curfew / Sean O'Reilly --Language, truth and lockjaw / Bernard MacLaverty --Midwife to the fairies / Éilís Ní Dhuibhne --Men and women / Claire Keegan --Mothers were all the same / Joseph O'Connor --The dressmaker's child / William TrevorWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story. To get started finding The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: Nostalgic, dark, comic, iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories written in the last sixty years, by authors from Elizabeth Bowen and Frank O’Connor to Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry. With a pithy and passionate introduction by Enright, The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades of social change, and shows the ease and pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short story form. There is no truth so telling as a small truth, or so much fun.The road to the shore / Michael McLaverty --The pram / Roddy Doyle --An attack of hunger / Maeve Brennan --Summer voices / John Banville --Summer night / Elizabeth Bowen --Music at Annahullion / Eugene McCabe --Naming the names / Anne Devlin --Shame / Keith Ridgway --Memory and desire / Val Mulkerns --The mad Lomasneys / Frank O'Connor --Walking away / Philip Ó Ceallaigh --Villa Marta / Clare Boylan --Lilacs / Mary Lavin --Meles vulgaris / Patrick Boyle --The trout / Seán Ó Faoláin --Night in Tunisia / Neil Jordan --Sister Imelda / Edna O'Brien --The key / John McGahern --A priest in the family / Colm Tóibín --The supremacy of grief / Hugo Hamilton --The swing of things / Jennifer C Cornell --Train tracks / Aidan Mathews --See the tree, how big it's grown / Kevin Barry --Visit / Gerard Donovan --Everything in this country must / Colum McCann --Curfew / Sean O'Reilly --Language, truth and lockjaw / Bernard MacLaverty --Midwife to the fairies / Éilís Ní Dhuibhne --Men and women / Claire Keegan --Mothers were all the same / Joseph O'Connor --The dressmaker's child / William TrevorWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story. To get started finding The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.