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Beginning with the sudden terror of a family caught up in shocking sectarian violence, and ending with the whiteout of an Iowa blizzard and the fear of losing your way very far from home, this collection is about bonds made and broken, secret and known. In the extraordinary story "Up the Coast," a landscape painter discovers a place that makes her, finally, feel whole, only to have that communion shattered by an arbitrary act of aggression that will resonate throughout her life.
Written with effortless skill and empathy, these stories are hauntingly real. MacLaverty's perfect attention to every detail, every nuance of idiom and character, remakes the world for us here on the page.
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"These are stories in the easiest and most pleasurable sense of the word. MacLaverty's work is in a line from Chekhov, via Frank O'Connor."
-"Guardian"
"A masterly control of pace and structure, pitch-perfect capturing of voice, characterization that has spot-on credibility."
-"Sunday Times"
"This stupendous new book . . . crucial, shattering sentences that express modestly, monumentally the achievement of this extraordinary writer. He is behind your eyes before you feel his thinking knife."
-"Scottish Review of Books"
" These are stories in the easiest and most pleasurable sense of the word. MacLaverty's work is in a line from Chekhov, via Frank O' Connor."
- "Guardian"
" A masterly control of pace and structure, pitch-perfect capturing of voice, characterization that has spot-on credibility."
- "Sunday Times"
" This stupendous new book . . . crucial, shattering sentences that express modestly, monumentally the achievement of this extraordinary writer. He is behind your eyes before you feel his thinking knife."
- "Scottish Review of Books"
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-"Guardian"
"A masterly control of pace and structure, pitch-perfect capturing of voice, characterization that has spot-on credibility."
-"Sunday Times"
"This stupendous new book . . . crucial, shattering sentences that express modestly, monumentally the achievement of this extraordinary writer. He is behind your eyes before you feel his thinking knife."
-"Scottish Review of Books"
" These are stories in the easiest and most pleasurable sense of the word. MacLaverty's work is in a line from Chekhov, via Frank O' Connor."
- "Guardian"
" A masterly control of pace and structure, pitch-perfect capturing of voice, characterization that has spot-on credibility."
- "Sunday Times"
" This stupendous new book . . . crucial, shattering sentences that express modestly, monumentally the achievement of this extraordinary writer. He is behind your eyes before you feel his thinking knife."
- "Scottish Review of Books"
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0393344878
- ISBN 13 9780393344875
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- Number of pages246
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