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Town and Country : New Irish Short Stories

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ISBN: 9780571297047
AuthorBarry, Kevin
Pub Date06/06/2013
BindingPaperback
Pages368
CountryGBR
Dewey823.010809
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Quick overview Edited by award winning novelist and short story writer, this volume seeks to offer fresh renditions to the Irish story - angles, approaches, and modes of attack.
€15.19

Edited by award winning novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, this volume will once again mix established names with previously unpublished authors, and will seek to offer fresh renditions to the Irish story - new angles, new approaches, new modes of attack. Published in 2011, "New Irish Short Stories", edited by Joseph O'Connor, has sold over 10,000 copies to date and featured Kevin Barry's "Beer Trip to Llandudno" - winner of the 2012 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize - as well as stories by William Trevor, Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle which went on to be "Afternoon Readings" on BBC Radio 4.

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Edited by award winning novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, this volume will once again mix established names with previously unpublished authors, and will seek to offer fresh renditions to the Irish story - new angles, new approaches, new modes of attack. Published in 2011, "New Irish Short Stories", edited by Joseph O'Connor, has sold over 10,000 copies to date and featured Kevin Barry's "Beer Trip to Llandudno" - winner of the 2012 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize - as well as stories by William Trevor, Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle which went on to be "Afternoon Readings" on BBC Radio 4.

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