Book
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- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection
Homesickness : stories
Call Number
- FICTION BARR (CEN)
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York : Grove Press, 2022.
Physical Description
213 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"When Colin Barrett's debut Young Skins was published, it swept up several major literary awards, and, in both its linguistic originality and sharply drawn portraits of working-class Ireland, earned Barrett comparisons to Faulkner, Hardy, and Musil. Now, in a blistering follow-up collection, Barrett brings together eight character-driven stories, each showcasing his inimitably observant eye and darkly funny style. A quiet night in a local pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword wielding fugitive; a funeral party teeters on the edge of this world and the next, as ghosts simply won't lay in wake; a shooting sees a veteran policewoman confront the banality of her own existence; and an aspiring writer grapples with his father's cancer diagnosis and in his despair wreaks havoc on his mentor's life."--
Contents
- Shooting in Rathreedane
- Ways
- Alps
- Whoever is there, come on through
- Silver coast
- Anhedonia, here I come
- Low, shimmering black drone
- 10.