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With Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories, edited by Kevin Barry, Faber are delighted to present a fourth collection of all new Irish short stories.
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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571297047
Date Published
06.06.2013
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Summary
Edited by award winning novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, this volume will once again mix established names with previously unpublished authors, and will seek to offer fresh renditions to the Irish story – new angles, new approaches, new modes of attack.
Published in 2011, New Irish Short Stories, edited by Joseph O’Connor, has sold over 10,000 copies to date and featured Kevin Barry’s ‘Beer Trip to Llandudno’ – winner of the 2012 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize – as well as stories by William Trevor, Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle which went on to be Afternoon Readings on BBC Radio 4.
Critic Reviews
A strong and thought provoking collection.
Sunday Business Post
Critic Reviews
Sharp, lively and varied selection ... The range of themes, characters, locations and moods covered in these pages is impressive; there is an inventive uncertainty in its mix of established voices and highly promising new ones, such as those of Mary Costello, Andrew Meehan, Colin Barrett andLisa McInerney. And Barry's creative editing has ensured that, as promised, we can discern here the shape of Irish fiction to come.
Giles Newington, Irish Times
Critic Reviews
Town & Country flaunts its diversity. The "great, mad and rude new energies" Barry touts in his introduction are certainly present. At its best, this collection sings as well as soars. An unruly chorus of unalike minds.
Tom Adair, The Scotsman
Critic Reviews
Bursting at the seams with literary talent
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KevinBarry
Kevin Barry is the author of the story collections ‘Dark Lies The Island‘ and ‘There Are Little Kingdoms’ and the novel ‘City Of Bohane‘. He has been awarded the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Authors Club Best First Novel Award, and has been shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize and…
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