Ireland
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780140277593
First sentence: On Sundays, or on Mondays if he couldn't make it and often he couldn't, Sunday being his busy day, Canon O'Connell arrived at the farm in order to hold a private service with Bridie's father, who couldn't get about any more, having had a leg amputated after gangrene had set in.
Description: "These nineteen stories - selected by Trevor himself from The Collected Stories and After Rain - capture the nuances of rural and middle-class life in the Ireland he knows so well. Here are its people, their lives driven by love, faith, and duty, surviving in a culture that blends tradition with transformation."--BOOK JACKET.