Collected Short Stories by Michael Mclaverty
MICHAEL MCLAVERTY, one of Ireland's most distinguished short story writers, painted with acute precision and intensity the northern landscape of his homeland - lonely hill farms, rough island terrain and the tight backstreets of Belfast. Focusing on moments of passion, wonder or bitter disenchantment in lives that are a continuous struggle towards the light, these stories, in the compassion of the tone and the spare purity of the language, are nothing short of masterly. Illustrated with specially commissioned woodcuts by Barbara Childs, and including an introduction by Seamus Heaney and a foreword by Sophia Hillan, this handsome hardback edition is a fitting celebration of a writer who has been compared to both Joyce and Chekhov.
'His tact and pacing, in the individual sentence and the overall story, are beautiful: in his best work, the elegiac is bodied forth in perfectly pondered images and rhythms.. McLaverty's place in our literature is secure.' Seamus Heaney
MICHAEL MCLAVERTY was born in County Monaghan in 1904 and lived for a short time on Rathlin Island in County Antrim, before moving to Belfast. One of Ireland's most distinguished modern writers, he is best remembered for his short stories and the novels Call My Brother Back (1939) and Lost Fields (1941). He died in 1992.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780856407277 |
| ISBN 10 | 0856407275 |
| Title | Collected Short Stories |
| Author | Michael Mclaverty |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Colourpoint Creative Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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