Barnacle soup, and other stories from the west of Ireland
By: Josie Gray, Tess Gallagher ; linocuts, Anne N. Anderson
Contributors: Gallagher, Tess
Edition: 1st Eastern Washington University Press ed.
Publisher: Eastern Washington University Press; EASTERN WASHINGTON UP
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Spokane, Wash.?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781597660365
Subjects: Fiction; Social life and customs
Description: "Ireland is known throughout the world for its rich and vibrant storytelling. Josie Gray is a proud inheritor of this tradition, a yarn-spinner whose evocative and authentic stories are steeped in the rural west of Ireland community to which he belongs." "Beautifully crafted, subtly paced, and richly textured, Gray's stories vividly and affectionately bring to life a disparate cast of characters and recreate the fabric of their everyday lives. Disputes, laughter, courting, death, drink and general all-round skulduggery are the order of the day as Gray skillfully weaves together myth and fact, truth and near-truth."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: First published in 2007 by Blackstaff Press, Belfast.
Table of contents: title: Keeping Stories Alive -- ; title: The Best Blood in Europe -- ; title: A hare on the chest -- ; title: The Elbow -- ; title: Surrounded by weasels -- ; title: The best blood in Europe -- ; title: A stray bullet and sick cattle -- ; title: An Irish solution -- ; title: A Fiddle in the Boat -- ; title: A blind tongue -- ; title: A fiddle in the boat -- ; title: A mouse on the shoe -- ; title: Face wound -- ; title: A bad night for dogs -- ; title: A close appraisal -- ; title: A Fox and a One-Legged Goose -- ; title: A wheelbarrow on the bog -- ; title: A wild hand -- ; title: A fox and a one-legged goose -- ; title: A golden goose -- ; title: The rate inspector -- ; title: A Beautiful Singer -- ; title: A lake in the boat -- ; title: Offspring -- ; title: A beautiful singer -- ; title: A genius of a dog -- ; title: A Bridge of Swans -- ; title: Barnacle soup -- ; title: The pig factory -- ; title: And out of it he could not get -- ; title: Tommy Flynn and his bealding -- ; title: Enigma -- ; title: A bridge of swans.