Collected Short Stories - (Irish Literature) by Dermot Healy (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Dermot Healy wrote intricate and innovative short stories that, along with works by Neil Jordan and Desmond Hogan, relaunched the Irish short story tradition. Set in small-town Ireland and the equally suffocating confines of the Irish expat communities of 1970s London, Healy's stories show compassion toward the marginalized and the dispossessed. Gathering all of Healy's stories together for the first time, this collection includes the long prose-drama "Before the Off" and Healy's final short works, "Along the Lines" and "Images" --<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Like many of the great Irish writers before him, Dermot Healy first announced himself as a writer of intricate and innovative short stories. Healy's stories are set in small-town Ireland and its rural environs, and in the equally suffocating confines of the Irish expat communities in London. Throughout these texts, Healy demonstrates a deep sense of compassion towards the marginalized and the dispossessed, without ever becoming sentimental or clichéd. The language is earthy and imagistic by turn, and he continually seeks to extend the formal boundaries of the genre.Gathering all of Healy's stories together for the first time, this collection includes the long prose-drama "Before the Off" and Healy's final short works, "Along the Lines" and "Images."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><P>"One of the most distinctive voices in recent fiction and poetry."--The Guardian<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><P>Dermot Healy (1947-2014) is the author of the memoir "The Bend for Home," the collection "Banished Misfortune and Other Stories," and four award-winning novels: "Fighting with Shadows, A Goat's Song, Sudden Times, "and" Long Time, No See. "He also wrote five collections of poems and thirteen stage plays.
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