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Item Details
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OLD SWORDS AND OTHER STORIES
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| By: |
Desmond Hogan |
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Hardback |
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£12.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1843511444 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781843511441 |
| Publisher: |
THE LILLIPUT PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
30 March, 2009 |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Description: |
Includes ten stories that collect minted shards of experience focused in the lives of the dreamers and the marginalized who populate the author's imagined worlds. |
| Synopsis: |
These ten stories by Desmond Hogan, his first publication since "Larks' Eggs, New and Selected Stories" (2005), collect newly minted shards of experience focused in the lives of the dreamers and the marginalized who populate his imagined worlds. They range in time and place from France and Italy in the nineteenth century to Ireland of the mid-twentieth century. Their concerns are fragility and identity expressed through the outer semblances of dress and deportment, and inner realities of fragmented memory and the retrieval of shared pasts. Close observation of nature combines with psychological unveilings, much of it in the form of erotic reverie. 'Belle', Iowa', 'Red Tide', 'Little Friends', 'Shelter', 'Sweet Marjoram', 'The Hare's Purse', 'The House of Mourning', 'Essex Slipper', 'Old Swords'; two of the stories have been selected for extract in both "The Stinging Fly" and "Cyphers".This unique and occasional voice is unique to Irish letters, as each new gathering enlarges upon his reputation as one of Ireland's most fearless and innovative writers, who in the words of film-maker Neil Jordan, 'remakes the world every time he puts pen to paper'. |
| Publication: |
Ireland |
| Imprint: |
The Lilliput Press Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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