'One of the best collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times
'Wild, witty stories . . . Exhilarating' Observer
Since
his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, and its
award-winning sequel in 2012, Dark Lies the Island, Kevin Barry has been
acclaimed as one of the world’s most accomplished and gifted short
story writers.
Barry’s lyric intensity, the vitality of his
comedy and the darkness of his vision recall the work of masters of the
genre like Flannery O’Connor and William Trevor, but he has forged a
style which is patently his own.
In this rapturous third
collection, we encounter a ragbag of west of Ireland characters, many on
the cusp between love and catastrophe, heartbreak and epiphany,
resignation and hope. These stories show an Ireland in a condition of
great flux but also as a place where older rhythms, and an older magic,
somehow persist.
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