Twenty-Twenty Vision by Mary Morrissy

Twenty-Twenty Vision by Mary Morrissy

Twenty-Twenty Vision is a collection of interlinked short stories exploring hindsight, middle-age regret, and late-life revelations, framed within the first year of the pandemic and offering a poignant portrait of the 1950s generation confronting their pasts and uncertain futures.

'"During that time with you I was more alive and more unhappy than I had ever been" says a woman speaking of her affair with a married man in this collection of interlinking short storiesThe line is sharp, pitiless and heartbreaking, just like everything else in this marvellous book.'

-- Carlo Gebler

'Mary Morrissy always writes with great insight, deep humanity and an oftentimes acerbic eye. These stories are assured little portraits of very ordinary people finding pathos, beauty and profundity in their very ordinary lives. I challenge you not to see something of yourself reflected here.'

-- Jan Carson

'I adore Mary Morrissy's stories. Fresh, deft, succinct, each one is like a dart to the heart. There is also the particular pleasure, here as in Prosperity Drive, of encountering the same characters in different ways, sometimes fleetingly, sometimes from a completely opposing perspective, complicating and deepening our relationships with them and giving an additional, satisfying and heartbreaking unity to this collection as a whole.'

-- Lucy Caldwell

'In Twenty-Twenty Vision, Mary Morrissy gives us deeply self-mining, gorgeously human characters, who miss neither tricks nor beats. Her players step with rueful intelligence – often hilariously – through the conundrums of ordinary but ruffled lives. This is insightful, vivid fiction from an accomplished storyteller who is, simply, one of our best.'

-- Nuala O'Connor

Mary Morrissy is an award-winning Irish novelist (The Hennessy Award, Lannan Foundation Award) and short story writer, the author of four novels, Mother of Pearl, The Pretender, The Rising of Bella Casey and Penelope Unbound, as well as two collections of short stories, A Lazy Eye and Prosperity Drive. She has 20 years’ experience of teaching creative writing at university level in the US and Ireland. Until May 2020, she was the associate director of creative writing at University College Cork. 

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ISBN 13	9781843519164
ISBN 10	184351916X
Title	Twenty-Twenty Vision
Author	Mary Morrissy
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Lilliput Press Ltd
Year published	2025-03-20
Number of pages	264
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