Matters of Life and Death - by Bernard MacLaverty (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>MacLaverty's tales are poised and beautifully balanced, outward yet intimate, graced by both subtlety and substance.--<em>The Independent</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A new book from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but <em>Matters of Life and Death</em> is more than that. It is the finest collection yet from a contemporary master of the form.<br /><br /> Beginning with the sudden terror of a family caught up in shocking sectarian violence, and ending with the whiteout of an Iowa blizzard and the fear of losing your way very far from home, this collection is about bonds made and broken, secret and known. In the extraordinary story Up the Coast, a landscape painter discovers a place that makes her, finally, feel whole, only to have that communion shattered by an arbitrary act of aggression that will resonate throughout her life.<br /><br /> Written with effortless skill and empathy, these stories are hauntingly real. MacLaverty's perfect attention to every detail, every nuance of idiom and character, remakes the world for us here on the page.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>" These are stories in the easiest and most pleasurable sense of the word. MacLaverty's work is in a line from Chekhov, via Frank O' Connor." <BR>- "Guardian" <BR>" A masterly control of pace and structure, pitch-perfect capturing of voice, characterization that has spot-on credibility." <BR>- "Sunday Times" <BR>" This stupendous new book . . . crucial, shattering sentences that express modestly, monumentally the achievement of this extraordinary writer. He is behind your eyes before you feel his thinking knife." <BR>- "Scottish Review of Books"<br><br>"These are stories in the easiest and most pleasurable sense of the word. MacLaverty's work is in a line from Chekhov, via Frank O'Connor."<BR>-"Guardian" <BR>"A masterly control of pace and structure, pitch-perfect capturing of voice, characterization that has spot-on credibility."<BR>-"Sunday Times" <BR>"This stupendous new book . . . crucial, shattering sentences that express modestly, monumentally the achievement of this extraordinary writer. He is behind your eyes before you feel his thinking knife."<BR>-"Scottish Review of Books"<br>
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