beheading the virgin mary, and other stories
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781628970128
Description: Liam O'Donnel, an Irish boy growing up in Scotland, is often the focus of Donal McLaughlin's hilarious and harrowing short stories, and in beheading the virgin mary, he continues this loose narrative, interspersed -- every second story -- with unrelated reports. Here, Liam steps in dog dirt on his way to Sunday Mass; Bloody Sunday is experienced as a series of phone calls to the home of a Scottish neighbor; and the title story introduces the next generation of O'Donnells.
Table of contents: label: big trouble
title: 7; label: a recent death
title: 17; label: the age of reason
title: 27; label: the troubles (for you)
title: 33; label: enough to make your heart
title: 34; label: somewhere down the line
title: 51; label: a day out
title: 60; label: the way to a man’s heart
title: 79; label: a trip to carfin
title: 92; label: the secret of how to love
title: 127; label: kenny ryan
title: 128; label: we now know
title: 140; label: a limit
title: 150; label: mrs. goodman
title: 152; label: dachau-derry-knock
title: 161; label: acknowledgements
title: 199; label: a story when you
title: 177; label: beheading the virgin mary
title: 181; label: bonus material; label: the completely true story of the goldfish ghost
title: 187; label: acknowledgements
title: 199