Collected Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781582432618)

Celebrating twenty years of rare accomplishment, The Collected Stories introduces American readers to a luminous and unforgettable writer of short fiction.

The Irish writer Clare Boylan has been publishing compelling and captivating work for over twenty years. Though she is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, she remains one of the most original and exciting short-story writers of our time. Like Alistair MacLeod, Alice Munro, and her compatriot William Trevor, her stories are universal. Hers is an imagination that is able, magically and marvelously, to transform everyday experience into something quite unexpected.

As perceptive as Colette, as darkly witty as Dorothy Parker, she waves a flag for the dispossessed and the marginalized and gleefully pulls love from behind its romantic facade. She makes the reader laugh out loud while at the same time compelling an uncomfortable self-examination. Plumbing the inner workings of marriage, aging, family dynamics, and the cost of love, her richly sardonic humor and acutely merciless observations may seem gentle, but look again, for they are edged with razors.

Author: Clare Boylan
ISBN-10: 1582432619
ISBN-13: 9781582432618
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2002
Pages: 412
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.03w x 1.04d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2002 pg. 1426
Publishers Weekly 10/21/2002 pg. 56
New York Times 11/24/2002 pg. 25
Library Journal 11/15/2002 pg. 105
New York Times 12/08/2002 pg. 61
Booklist 11/01/2002 pg. 473