The collected short stories
By: Dermot Healy ; edited, with an introduction, by Keith Hopper & Neil Murphy
Contributors: Murphy, Neil, editor; Hopper, Keith, editor; Healy, Dermot, 1947-2014
Edition: First edition.
Series: John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series; John F. Byrne Irish literature series
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781564785985; 9781564786784
Copyright date: 2015
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Dermot Healy wrote intricate and innovative short stories that, along with works by Neil Jordan and Desmond Hogan, relaunched the Irish short story tradition. Set in small-town Ireland and the equally suffocating confines of the Irish expat communities of 1970s London, Healy's stories show compassion toward the marginalized and the dispossessed. Gathering all of Healy's stories together for the first time, this collection includes the long prose-drama "Before the Off" and Healy's final short works, "Along the Lines" and "Images"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: First snow of the year --; title: A family and a future --; title: The island and the calves --; title: The curse --; title: Blake's column --; title: The girl in the muslin dress --; title: Reprieve --; title: Kelly --; title: Betrayal --; title: Love --; title: The tenant --; title: Banished misfortune --; title: The caretaker --; title: This side of summer --; title: The workman --; title: Jude and his mother --; title: Before the off --; title: Along the lines --; title: Images --; title: First snow of the year (original 1973 version) --; title: Legal times --; title: The smell of roses.