The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction - Hardcover

Colm Toibin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670854972 ISBN 13: 9780670854974

Publisher: Viking Press, 1999

Synopsis

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. The Penguin book of Irish fiction, hardcover, Very Good, Almost as new; very slight dents to top and bottom of jacket and spine. xxxiv, 1085 p. ; 24 cm.. . Castle Rackrent / Maria Edg.eworth -- Wildgoose Lodge / William Carleton -- The hungry death / Rosa Mulholland -- Home sickness / George Moore -- Nightfall / Daniel Corkery -- A glass of beer / James Stephens -- The dead / James Joyce -- The hawk / Liam O'Flaherty -- Her table spread / Elizabeth Bowen -- A dead cert / Sean O'Faolain -- On the empty shore / Seosamh Mac Grianna -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- First love / Samuel Beckett -- Company / Samuel Beckett -- Floodtide / Mairtin O Cadhain -- Exile's return / Bryan MacMahon -- The martyr's crown / Flann O'Brien -- Happiness / Mary Lavin -- The morning after the big fire / Maeve Brennan -- Homes on the mountain / Benedict Kiely -- The eagles and the trumpets / James Plunkett -- Memory and desire / Val Mulkerns -- Kathleen's field / William Trevor -- The hairdresser / Leland Bardwell -- Foundry House / Brian Friel -- Music at Annahullion / Eugene McCabe -- A Belfast woman / Mary Beckett -- Left of the door / Tom Mac Intyre -- Will You please go now / Julia O'Faolain -- The country funeral / John McGahern -- Life drawing / Bernard Mac Laverty -- Such good friends / Ita Daly -- Topping / Shane Connaughton -- Night in Tunisia / Neil Jordan -- Memories of swinging London -- Desmond Hogan -- A country dance / Mary Dorcey -- Nazi Christmas / Hugo Hamilton -- In the dark / Aidan Mathews -- The cantilever principle / Mary Morrissy -- (She owns) every thing / Anne Enright -- Slade / Frank Ronan -- Breakfast for Enrique / Colum McCann -- Going back / Emma Donoghue..

About this title

About the Author:

Colm Tóibín has been hailed by the Irish Independent as the best Irish writer of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Prize.

From Publishers Weekly:

It's hard to keep up with Irish literature, and it's difficult to take stock of; the backlist, as it were, shifts constantly, being a cultural tradition subject to the winds of politics and whatever a nation's self-image is at the moment. The continuing productivity of the Irish--and their diaspora--also contributes to the changing face of the overall accomplishment. So it is never redundant to refashion Irish literature--in this case, Irish fiction--and T?ib!n is an excellent choice, being an expert novelist (The Heather Blazing), a superb travel writer and historian (Homage to Barcelona) and young enough to be hip to the newest writers. His take on the Irish tradition is complex and bracing: it is, he says, "strangeness" itself. An awareness of the proximity of England and France makes the Irish writer aware of what is missing; and the three subjects that dominate Irish fiction are fire, men killing women, and fathers and sons. In his invaluable introduction, T?ib!n provides readers with a handy survey of writing in Ireland from the time of Swift till the latest by Colum McCann. In between, he includes selections from the standard-bearers (what to chose from Ulysses? The demotic Irish speechifying of "Cyclops"), from the lesser known and the unknown: John Broderick, from his beautiful The Trials of Father Dillingham; the funny Benedict Kiely. This is an exhaustive volume, and one with much variety. And its very last lines are apt, drawn from "Going Back," by Emma Donahue (b. 1969): "They wandered down the street past the restaurant, past the pub, coming to no conclusion. Like tails of a cloud, their voices winding around and in and out." Readers who wander into this long, big book will find conclusions perhaps hard to come by, but the Irish air is unmistakable. (Mar.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0670854972
• ISBN 13: 9780670854974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1088