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| Title Statement | Homesickness: stories / Colin Barrett. |
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| Author | Barrett, Colin, 1982- |
| Publication | ©2022[Toronto]: McClelland & Stewart,2022. |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Extent of Item | 213 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9780771000379 0771000375 |
| Other Number | 4407546 |
| Contents | A shooting in Rathreedane --The ways --The Alps --Whoever is there, come on through --The silver coast --Anhedonia, here I come --The low, shimmering black drone --The 10. |
| Summary | When Colin Barrett's debut Young Skins was published, it swept up several major literary awards, and, in both its linguistic originality and sharply drawn portraits of working-class Ireland, earned Barrett comparisons to Faulkner, Hardy, and Musil. Now, in a blistering follow-up collection, Barrett brings together eight character-driven stories, each showcasing his inimitably observant eye and darkly funny style. A quiet night in a local pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword wielding fugitive; a funeral party teeters on the edge of this world and the next, as ghosts simply won't lay in wake; a shooting sees a veteran policewoman confront the banality of her own existence; and an aspiring writer grapples with his father's cancer diagnosis and in his despair wreaks havoc on his mentor's life. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Short stories |
| Interpersonal relations--Fiction | |
| By Location | Ireland--Fiction--Social life and customs--21st century |
