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Short Stories
With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in Ireland but in the English language. All of his prodigious gifts of language, character, and setting in these eleven exquisite stories transport the reader to an Ireland both timeless and recognizably modern. Shot through with dark humor and the uncanny power of the primal and unchanging Irish landscape, the stories in That Old Country Music represent some of the finest fiction being written today.
Roxanne says: The Djinn in the Nightengale's Eyes inspired a recent major motion picture with a premise that's deliciously fun. Gillian Perholt, a middle aged author, is gifted a genie who grants her three wishes. Her choices are marvelous, and reading the story was like entering a fantastical world, all while grounded in Perholt’s real world intellectual lifestyle. The title story, Medusa's Ankles, is a love-hate fantasy any female ever has had about a beauty salon.
With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time.
[Carver's stories] can ... be counted among the masterpieces of American Literature. --The New York Times Book Review One of the great short story writers of our time--of any time. --The Philadelhpia Inquirer The whole collection is a knock out. Few wriers can match Raymond Carver's entiwining style and language. --The Dallas Morning NewsA collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.
Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power" (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.