Collected Stories by Bernard Maclaverty
This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection--a finalist for the National Book Award--demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her characters, moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again. Whether writing about the love (and conflict) between parents and children or between husband and wife, or about the struggles of aging single mothers or disheartened political organizers to make sense of the world, she brings the same unerring ear for the rhythm of life as it is actually lived.
The Collected Stories is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
"Not since JD. Salinger's For Esme With Love and Squalor have I enjoyed so much a collection of stories. I mean pleasure – real pleasure." -- Paul Durcan * The Cork Examiner *
"MacLaverty is one of the best practitioners of the genre we have." * New Statesman *
"His prose is invisible, free of tricks, as though it was your own thoughts." * Observer *
"Beautifully constructed, minutely observed, filled with the poetry of longing, told with an economy and simplicity which makes their small tragedies even more powerful and moving… MacLaverty has created an imagined Ulster which can stand side by side with Joyce's Dublin. Long may he continue." * Guardian *
"MacLaverty has a knack for endowing the workaday with a little poetry." * Independent *
"MacLaverty is one of the best practitioners of the genre we have." * New Statesman *
"His prose is invisible, free of tricks, as though it was your own thoughts." * Observer *
"Beautifully constructed, minutely observed, filled with the poetry of longing, told with an economy and simplicity which makes their small tragedies even more powerful and moving… MacLaverty has created an imagined Ulster which can stand side by side with Joyce's Dublin. Long may he continue." * Guardian *
"MacLaverty has a knack for endowing the workaday with a little poetry." * Independent *
Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written five collections of stories and four other novels, including Grace Notes which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. He has written versions of his fiction for other media – radio and television plays, screenplays and libretti.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224097802 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224097806 |
| Title | Collected Stories |
| Author | Bernard Maclaverty |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2013-11-14 |
| Number of pages | 640 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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