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Homesickness
Colin Barrett
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Description for Homesickness
Paperback.
The second book from the exact and poetic (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35, Homesickness is an emotionally resonant and wonderfully wry collection that follows the lives of outcasts, misfits, and malcontents from County Mayo to Canada. When Colin Barrett's debut Young Skins published, it swept up several major literary awards, and, in both its linguistic originality and sharply drawn portraits of working-class Ireland, earned Barrett comparisons to Faulkner, Hardy, ... Read more
The second book from the exact and poetic (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35, Homesickness is an emotionally resonant and wonderfully wry collection that follows the lives of outcasts, misfits, and malcontents from County Mayo to Canada. When Colin Barrett's debut Young Skins published, it swept up several major literary awards, and, in both its linguistic originality and sharply drawn portraits of working-class Ireland, earned Barrett comparisons to Faulkner, Hardy, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781529115703
SKU
9781529115703
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About Colin Barrett
Colin Barrett was born in 1982 and grew up in County Mayo. His stories have been published in The Stinging Fly, Granta, Harper's and the New Yorker. His first book, the short story collection Young Skins, won the 2014 Guardian First Book Award, the 2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the 2014 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. In ... Read more
Reviews for Homesickness
A mesmerisingly powerful book, full of the strangeness and beauty of life. I've learned so much from Colin Barrett's work as a reader and writer...these stories are his best yet
Sally Rooney Full of humour and small-town Irish colour... His [Barrett's] second collection confirms him as one of the very best short-story writers in the business
New Statesman, ... Read more
Sally Rooney Full of humour and small-town Irish colour... His [Barrett's] second collection confirms him as one of the very best short-story writers in the business
New Statesman, ... Read more