| Edition |
1st Vintage Books ed. |
| Description |
xxviii, 561 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published: The Picador book of contemporary Irish fiction. London : Picador, 1993. With rev. introd. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part One: For to end yet again / Samuel Beckett -- Part Two: The man-keeper / Tom Mac Intyre -- The talking trees / Sean O'Faolain -- from The killeen / Mary Leland -- from A curious street / Desmond Hogan -- from Black list, section H / Francis Stuart -- from The Christmas tree / Jennifer Johnston -- Part Three: High ground / John McGahern -- Postcards / Bridget O'Connor -- A woman's hair / Bryan MacMahon -- from Balcony of Europe / Aidan Higgins -- Happiness / Mary Lavin -- Blood and water / Eilis Ni Dhuibhne -- Ojus / Shane Connaughton -- from The butcher boy / Patrick McCabe -- Villa Marta / Clare Boylan -- from Burning your own / Glenn Patterson -- Cancer / Eugene McCabe -- Part Four: The ballroom of romance / William Trevor -- from Good behaviour / Molly Keane -- Last rites / Neil Jordan -- Between two shores / Bernard MacLaverty -- Heaven / Mary Beckett -- Memory and desire / Val Mulkerns -- The husband / Mary Dorcey -- What a sky / Edna O'Brien -- Part Five: from The snapper / Roddy Doyle -- Oranges from Spain / David Park -- If angels had wings / Eoin McNamee -- from Proxopera / Benedict Kiely -- Orange horses / Maeve Kelly -- from The journey home / Dermot Bolger -- from The heather blazing / Colm Toibin -- Mothers were all the same / Joseph O'Connor -- The sky's gone out / Sara Berkeley -- from Ripley bogle / Robert McLiam Wilson -- from Surrogate City / Hugo Hamilton -- A rock-'n'-roll death / Michael O'Loughlin -- from Remembering light and stone / Deirdre Madden -- from The engine of owl-light / Sebastian Barry -- The sight / Brian Moore --Incident on the El Camino Real / Aidan Mathews -- Part Six: Men and angels / Anne Enright -- Counterpoints / Gerardine Meaney -- The hairdresser / Leland Bardwell -- from Mefisto / John Banville -- Part Seven: The death of Matti Bonner / Dermot Healy -- Absent children / John MacKenna -- Divided attention / Mary Morrissy -- Through the field / Colum McCann. |
| Subject |
Short stories, English -- Irish authors.
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Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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English fiction -- Irish authors.
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English fiction -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Bolger, Dermot, 1959-
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| Added Title |
Picador book of contemporary Irish fiction |
| ISBN |
0679765468 |
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