True believers

Oconnor, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0006544754 / ISBN 13: 9780006544753

Published by FLAMINGO, 1992

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00076391354

Synopsis:

A collection of short stories, including the award-winning "Last of the Mohicans". The author also wrote "Cowboys and Indians" and in November 1989, he won the "Sunday Tribune"/Hennessy First Fiction and New Irish Writer of the Year Awards.

From the Back Cover:

Opening with the story that won the 'Sunday Tribune' Hennessy First Fiction Award, 'True Believers' projects the reader into a world of characters stunning in their variety. Here are sad-hearted priests, old friends, young lovers, rockers and rebels. Here are runaway husbands and runaway wives. Here are jokers and fanatics, punks and poets, thinkers and drinkers, chancers and killers. Here are the true believers, all clinging desperately to some kind of faith in a mutable and dangerous world.

"First, the good news: Eddie Virago's back. The hero of Joseph O'Connor's widely acclaimed novel 'Cowboys and Indians' features in the first of the thirteen stories that make up 'True Believers', and he makes a tasty entree. Now for the great news: there's plenty more where Eddie came from."
THE TIMES

"With an acute ear for speech patterns and a nice line in self-irony, O'Connor has a gift for fixing a person or place in a phrase. The laureate of the rising Irish generation, he combines the demotic wit of Roddy Doyle, the social concern of Dermot Bolger and the structural guile of Colm Toibin. A significant writer of a very contemporary kind."
IRISH TIMES

"In ' True Believers', grimy realism meets repressed romanticism. Mixing tenderness with tension, O'Connor sure knows how to twist his tales for a gripping read."
CITY LIMITS

Bibliographic Details

Title: True believers
Publisher: FLAMINGO
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Acceptable