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Caroline Walsh - Arrows In Flight: Short Stories From A New Ireland - 9781903650554 - KSS0004457
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Arrows In Flight: Short Stories From A New Ireland

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Description for Arrows In Flight: Short Stories From A New Ireland Paperback. Taking the Irish short story into the twenty-first century, a ground-breaking collection from the new generation of short story writers. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. . Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
The short-story tradition in Ireland is a long and noble one, and yet the world mirrored in the Irish short story of the past is fast disappearing. In the twenty-first century a new array of concerns presents itself, moving away from the tyranny of church, poverty and authoritarian figureheads and towards a complex, urban world of hollow promises and short-lived gratification. The new wave of Irish short story writers are moving beyond national boundaries, seeking a different moral climate to that which gave the traditional Irish short story its strongest hue. With stories often set outside Ireland, peopled occasionally by ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781903650554
SKU
KSS0004457
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Caroline Walsh
Caroline Walsh was born in 1952 and raised in Dublin and Co. Meath. She has been a journalist with The Irish Times since the mid 1970s and has been their Literary Editor since 1999. She is the author of The Homes of Irish Writers (Anvil Books, 1982) and has edited two previous collections of short stories: Modern Irish Stories from ... Read more

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