Life Here Below: Collection of Stories - Couverture souple

Farrell, Michael J

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848403550 ISBN 13 : 9781848403550

Editeur : New Island Books, 2014

Synopsis

A dippy photographer shoots talking donkeys and invisible strangers. A brash young journalist wants the local paper to save the world, but the editor prefers football. Rene Descartes skull shows up unexpectedly again and again. Only a thin veil separates the world we know from the other universe we suspect. Does a son always know his father and vice versa? When a large old duffer gets stuck in Newgrange, can love conquer all? Is a paedophile priest all bad? Why can t the future be obvious as the past? Michael J. Farrell insists his stories are what people brood over in the small hours until some see the light. What they then see is the fragile earth redeemed time and again by surprises.Ballinasloe may seem an odd beginning of the end of George W. Bush. And what about the professor who in his youth vowed to kill Ian Paisley, something he has not yet done? Or the new arrivals who find one astronaut too many at the International Space Station? Life here below, Farrell contends, would be a dire place without insights and epiphanies and, of course, porter.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael J. Farrell was born in County Longford but spent much of his life in the US working in journalism. He retired to the midlands in 2003 and now writes mostly fiction. His last collection of short stories, Life in the Universe (Stinging Fly) was longlisted for both the Frank O Connor Award and the UK s Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Island Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848403550
• ISBN 13: 9781848403550
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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• Personne responsable: non disponible