Bibliograph

The collected short stories, Dermot Healy ; edited, with an introduction, by Keith Hopper & Neil Murphy

Type

Label

The collected short stories, Dermot Healy ; edited, with an introduction, by Keith Hopper & Neil Murphy

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The collected short stories

Oclc number

910009084

Responsibility statement

Dermot Healy ; edited, with an introduction, by Keith Hopper & Neil Murphy

Series statement

John F. Byrne Irish literature series

Summary

"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" --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

First snow of the year -- A family and a future -- The island and the calves -- The curse -- Blake's column -- The girl in the muslin dress -- Reprieve -- Kelly -- Betrayal -- Love -- The tenant -- Banished misfortune -- The caretaker (1972) -- This side of summer (1974) -- The workman (1975) -- Jude and his mother (1977) -- Before the off (1999) -- Along the lines (2112) -- Images (2113) -- First snow of the year (original 1973 version) -- Legal times (1980) -- The smell of roses (2009)

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