Ryan, Donal
Summary: Donal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December left off, dealing with the human cost of loneliness, isolation and displacement. Sometimes this is present in the ordinary, the mundane; sometimes it is triggered by a fatal encounter or a tragic decision. At the heart of these stories, crucially, is how people are drawn to each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYAContents: She went by gently / Paul Vincent Carroll -- The islandman / Desmond Clarke -- The lady on the Grey / John Collier -- The awakening ; The return / Daniel Corkery -- Saint Bakeoven / Eric Cross -- The kith of the elf-folk / Lord Dunsany -- The burial / St. John Ervine -- Something in a boat / Padraic Fallon -- Miss Gillespie and the micks / Arnold Hill -- The leaping trout / David Hogan -- Araby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Devin-Adair Co. 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC Forty fourEnright, Anne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ENRMcLaughlin, Danielle
Summary: A debut collection from a deeply original writer and observer of love, betrayal, and turning points in ordinary peoples' lives. In a raw seacoast cabin, a young woman watches her boyfriend go out with his brother, late one night, on a mysterious job she realizes she isn't supposed to know about. A man gets a call at work from his sister-in-law, saying that his wife and his daughter never made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016