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A collection of short stories which explore the varieties of consolation people will seek in difficult circumstances, such as alcohol, poetry and impotent reminiscence. From the author of LAMB, A TIME TO DANCE and CAL. ... Read more

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This volume is part of a new series of novels, plays and stories at GCSE/Key Stage 4 level, designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text includes an introduction, pre-reading activities, notes and coursework activities. Also provided is a section on the process of writing, often compiled by the author. When Brother Michael Lamb escapes from the grimness of the Home, he takes with him a 12-year-old boy. Together, he and Owen head for England - and freedom. But how long can they resist capture? And is freedom ever really possible? ... Read more

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Easy-to-read chapters and black-and-white drawings enhance the story of Andrew, who loves to speak in rhyme, and his grandfather, as they try to cope with Andrew's knack for breaking things and mixing things up. ... Read more

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A rich collection of short stories by one ofIreland's contemporary literary masters.This long-awaited new collection from the notedIrish writer Bernard MacLaverty examines worldsin 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 Protestantpoliceman; a chess game in Spain is a catalystfor grief and redemption; in the haunting titlestory a Belfast man out walking his dog iskidnapped at gunpoint.

As always, MacLaverty's writing is vivid, exact, and pellucid, hischaracters perfectly observed, the surface ofthe prose deceptively still. It is only after we enter the world of the stories that we begin tomake out the huge shapes that move there: loss,love, disappointment, fierce joy. This is apowerful, honest, and moving book by one of thegreat storytellers of our age. ... Read more

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Highly recommended story collection for anyone who likes spare, richly suggestive prose in the Carver-Hemingway-early McEwan vein. MacLaverty tells deeply evocative stories of ordinary people without any literary tricks or cheap bendings toward genre. He helps you understand what daily life is like in Ireland while thankfully avoiding Irish kitsch. In these empathetic stories, he creates characters whose fear, anger, doubt and general misgivings about life seldom cancel out caring for others. I'm new to MacLaverty having also just read his short(and also extraordinary)novel Lamb. I plan to read all his work. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Atlantis, revista de la Asociación Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos, published by Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN) on December 1, 2001. The length of the article is 6054 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "Writing is a state of mind not an achievement": an interview with Bernard MacLaverty.(author)(Entrevista)
Author: Marisol Morales Ladron
Publication: Atlantis, revista de la Asociación Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2001
Publisher: Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN)
Volume: 23Issue: 2Page: 201(11)

Article Type: Entrevista

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This digital document is an article from Irish Literary Supplement, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 3614 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: An interview with Bernard MacLaverty.(Interview)
Author: Richard Rankin Russell
Publication: Irish Literary Supplement (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 26Issue: 1Page: 21(2)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Bob Shaw, born Robert Shaw, (31 December 1931 12 February 1996) was a science fiction author and fan from Northern Ireland. He was noted for his originality and wit. He was two-time recipient (in 1979 and 1980) of the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. His short story "Light of Other Days" was a Hugo Award nominee in 1967, as was his novel The Ragged Astronauts in 1987. Shaw was born and raised in Belfast, one of three brothers. He originally trained as a structural engineer, but also worked as an aircraft designer and journalist. He and his first wife Sadie and their children left Northern Ireland for Ulverston, England in the mid-1970s, because they were worried about the political situation. They subsequently moved to Grappenhall in Warrington, where Shaw lived for some years after Sadie's death in 1991. Throughout this period they were members of the Liverpool Science Fiction Group (LiG). Shaw died of cancer on 11 February 1996. He was survived by one son and two daughters, and his second wife Nancy Tucker, who he had married in 1995. Shaw is perhaps best known for "Light of Other Days" (August 1966), the story that introduced the concept of slow glass, through which the past can be seen. Shaw sold this story to Analog editor John W. Campbell, who liked it so much Shaw wrote a sequel for him, "Burden of Proof", in May 1967. The original story was written in four hours, but after years of planning. Shaw expanded on the concept in the novel Other Days, Other Eyes, and the concept was adopted by the Marvel Comics/Curtis Magazines anthology magazine Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction. His work ranged from essentially mimetic stories with fantastic elements far in the background (Ground Zero Man) to van Vogtian extravaganzas (The P... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=74659 ... Read more