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Homesickness (Paperback)
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Homesickness (Paperback)
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List price R309
Loot Price R252
Discovery Miles 2 520
You Save R57 (18%)
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The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author
of critical smash Young Skins, winner of the Guardian First Book
Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a National Book
Foundation 5 Under 35, Homesickness is an emotionally resonant and
wonderfully wry collection that follows the lives of outcasts,
misfits, and malcontents from County Mayo to Canada. When Colin
Barrett's debut Young Skins published, it swept up several major
literary awards, and, in both its linguistic originality and
sharply drawn portraits of working-class Ireland, earned Barrett
comparisons to Faulkner, Hardy, and Musil. Now, in a blistering
follow-up collection, Barrett brings together eight
character-driven stories, each showcasing his inimitably observant
eye and darkly funny style A quiet night in a local pub is
shattered by the arrival of a sword-wielding fugitive; a funeral
party teeters on the edge of this world and the next, as ghosts
simply won't lay in wake; a shooting sees a veteran policewoman
confront the banality of her own existence; and an aspiring writer
grapples with his father's cancer diagnosis and in his despair
wreaks havoc on his mentor's life. The second piece of fiction from
a 'lyrical and tough and smart' (Anne Enright) voice in
contemporary Irish literature, Homesickness? marks Colin Barrett
out as our most brilliantly original and captivating storyteller.
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