The dogs of inishere
Subtitle: stories
By: Alannah Hopkin
Edition: First Dalkey Archive edition.
Series: Irish literature series; Irish literature series
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781943150083
Subjects: Life change events; Irish Short stories; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: The Dogs of Inishere collects stories from across Alannah Hopkin's thirty-year career as a fiction and travel writer. The stories presented here move from adolescence to middle age, sensitive always to the particular social, emotional, and intellectual challenges of the different phases of a life. An adolescent girl bristles against the gendered assumptions and expectations of mid-60s London. A young writer struggles to commit fully to the artist's life. A group of pub regulars in a sleepy seaside town observe the quiet disappoints of love and marriage. Along the way, Hopkin's stories also wrestle and reckon with numerous literary influences, including Austen, Byron, Poe, Wilde, Lowry, and B.S. Johnson.
Table of contents: title: The Dogs of Inishere --; title: Ripe --; title: New Girl --; title: Twentyquidsworth --; title: My heart aches --; title: Coo --; title: Strangers --; title: A shooting incident in County Tipperary --; title: An explanation of the Tides --; title: Star Quality --; title: You Can't Call It That.