Walking the Dog
eBook - ePub

Walking the Dog

Stories

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Walking the Dog

Stories

About this book

A rich collection of short stories by one of Ireland's contemporary literary masters.

This long-awaited new collection from the noted Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty examines worlds in collision, relationships fragmenting, innocence coming face to face with real life and real death. A Catholic schoolboy playing football has a theological debate with a Protestant policeman; a chess game in Spain is a catalyst for grief and redemption; in the haunting title story a Belfast man out walking his dog is kidnapped at gunpoint.
As always, MacLaverty's writing is vivid, exact, and pellucid, his characters perfectly observed, the surface of the prose deceptively still. It is only after we enter the world of the stories that we begin to make out the huge shapes that move there: loss, love, disappointment, fierce joy. This is a powerful, honest, and moving book by one of the great storytellers of our age.

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Information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
1996
eBook ISBN
9780393634884
Subtopic
Literature General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. On the Art of the Short Story
  5. Walking the Dog
  6. The Voyeur
  7. The Grandmaster
  8. The Fountain-Pen Shop Woman
  9. A Silent Retreat
  10. Looking out the Window – I
  11. At the Beach
  12. By Train
  13. The Wake House
  14. A Visit to Norway
  15. In Bed
  16. This Fella I Knew
  17. A Foreign Dignitary
  18. O’Donnell v. Your Man
  19. Compensations
  20. St Mungo’s Mansion
  21. Just Visiting
  22. Looking out the Window – II
  23. Praise for Walking The Dog
  24. Also by Bernard Mac Laverty
  25. About the Author
  26. Copyright