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The Property Baron and Other Stories
Linda Mcnamara
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Description for The Property Baron and Other Stories
Paperback. Features disturbing stories that vividly capture an Ireland in flux and crisis where the coping classes, "the squeezed middle", increasingly face the threat of economic and emotional meltdown. In this title, the protagonists must seek whatever salvation they can as certainties collapse around them. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 226.
These deftly told, amusing but disturbing stories vividly capture an Ireland in flux and crisis where the coping classes, the squeezed middle , increasingly face the threat of economic and emotional meltdown. The writing is taut and poised. The protagonists, credible and beautifully brought to life, must seek whatever salvation they can as certainties collapse around them.
These deftly told, amusing but disturbing stories vividly capture an Ireland in flux and crisis where the coping classes, the squeezed middle , increasingly face the threat of economic and emotional meltdown. The writing is taut and poised. The protagonists, credible and beautifully brought to life, must seek whatever salvation they can as certainties collapse around them.
Product Details
Publisher
Liffey Pr
Number of pages
180
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781908308177
SKU
V9781908308177
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Ref
99-10
About Linda Mcnamara
Linda McNamara, who passed away last August after a lengthy illness, worked as an Assistant Keeper at the National Library of Ireland. Her previous collection of short stories, Drinker at the Spring of Kardaki, was published by Wolfhound Press and hailed by The Irish Times as stories that repay re-reading, sophisticated, well written and subtle .
Reviews for The Property Baron and Other Stories
In the end, he'd had to doctor the figures to get the loan; he'd been confident at the time that it would never make any difference, but now he was worried. Whenever he pulled up the details of his property holdings, it seemed to him that all the major events of his life - school, college, joining the firm, his ... Read more