House of Mourning and Other Stories
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781564788559
Description: There is no doubt that Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century, and perhaps the best introduction to his work is through his magnificent short stories, widely anthologized and praised throughout the world. Focusing as always on the downtrodden and the eccentric, the misplaced and the dispossessed, Hogan's stories merge past with present, landscape with mindscape, distinctly Irish and burdened by history, while exhilaratingly and wholly universal and modern.