| Description |
168 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
New Island new fiction |
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New Island new fiction.
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| Contents |
Deep Down -- The Whale in the Garden -- Dreams of Sailing -- Camouflage -- Una One: Pinkeens -- Lemon Grass -- Una Two: Secret Passages -- Blue Murder -- Una Three: Beauty Treatment -- Le Soleil et le Vent -- Una Four: The Back Way Home -- Ham -- Una Five: Charm -- Nesting -- Una Six: Majella's Quilt -- Ohio by the Ocean -- Mayonnaise to the Hills |
| Summary |
The "salt water" of Angela Bourke's first collection is not only the sea, but also tears, sweat, and the amniotic fluid where we first swim. Often on the brink, her women narrators encounter various lessons in a variety of landscapes: shadows of cruelty (and mortality) in the back lanes of a 1960s Dublin to affairs of the heart in America, Europe and the West of Ireland in the 1990s. Struggling to find their way (and themselves) in a world they cannot always comprehend, they discover many ways of telling a story |
| Subject |
Short stories, English -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
97101138 |
| ISBN |
1874597391 paperback |
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