Beneath the earth
Subtitle: stories
By: John Boyne
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780857523402
Subjects: Interpersonal relations; Short stories; Irish Short stories; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us, the impossibility of shared loss, the lengths we will go to in order to protect our families and the distance we will run to protect ourselves. Drawing on a host of enthralling characters - a farmer, a cuckold and a teenager exploring his sexuality; good parents, bad parents, writers and soldiers; a student, a rent boy and a hitman - Boyne examines the hopeful and the damaged without prejudice or judgement. This, his first collection of short stories, is some of John Boyne's finest writing to date. It includes 'Rest Day' which won the 2015 Writing.ie Short Story of the Year award in Ireland.
Table of contents: title: Boy, 19 --; title: The country you called home --; title: The schleinermetzenmann --; title: Empire tour --; title: Haystack girl --; title: Rest day --; title: The vespa --; title: A good man --; title: Amsterdam --; title: Student card --; title: Araby --; title: Beneath the Earth.