Collected Stories (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

MacLaverty, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099561581 ISBN 13: 9780099561583

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2014

Synopsis

‘Characters all but leap off the page with believability in these marvellous stories of life (and death) in Belfast’ Sunday Times

Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life’s big events: love and loss, separation and violence, death and betrayal. But the stories teem with smaller significant moments too – private epiphanies, chilling exchanges, intimate encounters. Each of these extraordinary stories – with their wry, self-deprecating humour, their elegance and subtle wisdom – gets to the very heart of life.

About this title

Review:

"Not since J.D. Salinger's For Esme With Love and Squalor have I enjoyed so much a collection of stories. I mean pleasure – real pleasure." (Paul Durcan The Cork Examiner)

"MacLaverty is one of the best practitioners of the genre we have." (New Statesman)

"His prose is invisible, free of tricks, as though it was your own thoughts." (Observer)

"Beautifully constructed, minutely observed, filled with the poetry of longing, told with an economy and simplicity which makes their small tragedies even more powerful and moving... MacLaverty has created an imagined Ulster which can stand side by side with Joyce's Dublin. Long may he continue." (Guardian)

"MacLaverty has a knack for endowing the workaday with a little poetry." (Independent)

Book Description:

‘Characters all but leap off the page with believability in these marvellous stories of life (and death) in Belfast’ Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0099561581
• ISBN 13: 9780099561583
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640