The Portable Virgin - Softcover

Enright, Anne

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ISBN 10: 0749399473 ISBN 13: 9780749399474

Publisher: Vintage, 1992

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The characters in this fierce and witty first collection of stories stand at an oblique angle to society. Full of desire, but out of kilter, their response to a dislocated reality is mutinous, wild, unforgettable.

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Review:

"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)

Book Description:

Man Booker winner Anne Enright's first collection of short stories, reissued in a sumptuous new series style

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