Lyrical dark comic or iconoclastic the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the twentieth century
- from Mary Lavin & Frank O' Connor to Claire Keegan & Kevin Barry With a pithy & passionate introduction by Enright The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades of social change & shows the pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short-story form Deft & often devastating the short story dodges the rolling mythologies of of Irish life to produce truths that are delightful & real Also
Includes:: stories by Maeve Brennan Roddy Doyle Mary Lavin Colum Mc Cann William Trevor John Mc Gahern Colm Toibin Claire Keegan & Kevin Barry