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MacMahon represents a particularly Irish form of storytelling that largely belongs to a bygone era.... These pieces are what their author believes good stories should be: the interesting reactions of significant characters in significant situations.--World Literature Today ""MacMahon's prose achieves a beautiful sort of preciousness. `The Telescope,' for example, which concerns an obsessed man who drags his confused new bride throughout Dublin in search of a spyglass, is the full equal of O. Henry's `The Gift of the Magi'.""--Publishers Weekly.
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MacMahon's short stories, though too often slight, are laden with traditional Irish voices. ``A Lesson in Love,'' the opening tale of the 17 collected here, describes a didactic battle between an illiterate butcher and his schoolteacher wife. ``Jack Furey'' is about a man who comes to discover-through the testimony of his elderly mother's senility-who his real father was. And the title story tells of a neat little turn-of-the-century court case (which it then surrounds with too many pages of historical expostulation). In fact, although most of the stories are set in the present, nearly all have a distinct 19th-century feel-and that's a credit to MacMahon (The Master), a retired Irish schoolmaster who's able to convey persuasively his lifetime of acquaintance with these drapers, farmers and butchers. It's only too bad that he so often portrays them negatively; surely not all rural Irish folk are simple or mean. Still, at its workmanlike best, MacMahon's prose achieves a beautiful sort of preciousness. ``The Telescope,'' for example, which concerns an obsessed man who drags his confused new bride throughout Dublin in search of a spyglass, is the full equal of O. Henry's ``The Gift of the Magi.''
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- PublisherPoolbeg Pr Ltd
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 185371447X
- ISBN 13 9781853714474
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages276
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