The collected short stories

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Author

Dermot Healy

Contributions

Murphy, Neil, editor - Contributor
Hopper, Keith, editor - Contributor
Healy, Dermot, 1947-2014 - Contributor

Publication

2015 - Dalkey Archive Press, Texas

Language

English

Word Count

58,750 words, Guess

Page Count

235 pages

Identifiers

Internet Archivecollectedshortst0000heal
ISBN-10156478598X
ISBN-101564786781
ISBN-139781564785985
ISBN-139781564786784

and 7 more

Library of Congress Control Number2015017348
OCLC Control Number910009084
Better World BooksW7-CGJ-975
Better World Books9781564786784
Better World Books9781564785985
Better World BooksW7-AXV-624
Open LibraryOL27201660M

Classifications

DDC823/.914
LCCPR6058.E19 A6 2015
LCCPR6058.E19 2015

and 1 more

LCCPR6058.E19

Description

"Dermot Healy wrote intricate and innovative short stories that, along with works by Neil Jordan and Desmond Hogan, relaunched the Irish short story tradition. Set in small-town Ireland and the equally suffocating confines of the Irish expat communities of 1970s London, Healy's stories show compassion toward the marginalized and the dispossessed. Gathering all of Healy's stories together for the first time, this collection includes the long prose-drama "Before the Off" and Healy's final short works, "Along the Lines" and "Images"--

Subjects

Topics

Irish Short stories Fiction, short stories (single author)

Series Statement

John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series

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