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The unrequited love of "A Friend in the Trade", the rejection of heroism in "The Mourning" or the renunciation of personal fulfilment, for familial or even national interests in "The Hill Bachelors" combine to establish pathos as the key tone of the collection. In the title story, 29-year-old Paulie returns to work the land of his fathers on a desolate hillside to the west of Ireland, full-knowing that this means he will never marry: "Enduring, unchanging, the hills had waited for him, claiming one of their own." Many of the stories are set in Ireland, and these have a richness of imagery and lyrical intensity that at times brings them close to prose poems. "Low Sunday, 1950," recalls Yeats' "terrible beauty" in its imagery of a landscape haunted by history; while "The Virgin's Gift" combines descriptive simplicity with religious allegory in a moving tale of a man's return to his parents after 40 years of self-imposed exile. --Robert Mighall
"Ireland's answer to Chekhov has produced another story collection of splendid melancholy." --The Boston Globe
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"Ireland's answer to Chekhov has produced another story collection of splendid melancholy." The Boston Globe"
"One of the very best writers of our era." The Washington Post Book World
"Ireland's answer to Chekhov has produced another story collection of splendid melancholy." The Boston Globe
""Ireland's answer to Chekhov has produced another story collection of splendid melancholy." --The Boston Globe
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