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A collection of stories whose characters interpret their lives through different unusual languages - visual, numerical, linguistic, sexual - and through honesty, humour and polemical imagination. The author was awarded the best first in English at Trinity College, Dublin, since Oscar Wilde.
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"Witty and acerbic...unusual and elegant. She is a writer to watch" (Today)
"Introduces a new voice in Irish fiction...a quirky, subversive, original wit and an imaginative linguistic fluency which must be interpreted as the consolidation of a new literary maturity" (Eileen Battersby Irish Times)
"In sentence after sentence as cool and clear-headed as the moment a migraine lifts, these pained, precise, disquieting stories restore to us the strangeness of the lives we follow beneath the surface of the lives we lead. The Portable Virgin is a remarkable debut" (Aidan Matthews)
"A great new Irish talent which we're bound to enjoy again. I can't wait" (Irish Indepedent)
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"Introduces a new voice in Irish fiction...a quirky, subversive, original wit and an imaginative linguistic fluency which must be interpreted as the consolidation of a new literary maturity" (Eileen Battersby Irish Times)
"In sentence after sentence as cool and clear-headed as the moment a migraine lifts, these pained, precise, disquieting stories restore to us the strangeness of the lives we follow beneath the surface of the lives we lead. The Portable Virgin is a remarkable debut" (Aidan Matthews)
"A great new Irish talent which we're bound to enjoy again. I can't wait" (Irish Indepedent)
Man Booker winner Anne Enright's first collection of short stories, reissued in a sumptuous new series style
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- PublisherMartin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0436200147
- ISBN 13 9780436200144
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages182
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Used.Hardcover in unclipped dust-jacket.Signed by Anne Enright to the title page.Author's first book.Short stories.Mild toning to page edges.Short closed tear to jacket fold.Generally very good with a little page aging. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001652
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 181 pages; gently bumped at top of spine and front cover hinge, otherwise very gently used, very clean and unmarked; DJ very lightly bumped along edges, spine sun faded to white. Seller Inventory # 039554
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. This is a unread true first edition, first printing (first impression) copy in a near Fine Dust Jacket with crease to rear panel.This copy has toning, associated with nearly all this print run due to the cheap paper used in its production. SIGNED [Anne Enright] by the author to the title page. Ticket to the event where the book was signed laid in loosely. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 013189
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. | Paper somewhat toned else a fine copy in fine, unclipped dustjacket (mylar-protected). Attractive copy of Booker-winning author's first book. Seller Inventory # 008304
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