Desmond Hogan is one of the most exciting literary talents to have
come out of Ireland in the past half-century. "Larks' Eggs"
reaffirms his stature, displaying anew a compressed lyricism,
ferocity and sheer prismatic brilliance in these twenty stories
from previous collections and twelve fresh ones. Cressida Connolly
called 'Airedale', in William Trevor's "The Oxford Book of Short
Stories", 'profound, moving and exquisitely executed. Hogan is one
of the finest writers alive today and deserves to be much better
known.' Joyce Carol Oates describes 'Winter Swimmers', in the Times
Literary Supplement, as an 'elegiac, daringly sustained prose
poem...a collage of meticulously rendered Irish scenes that weaves
in and out of tales of tinkers and youths'. Hogan's compelling
tales of diaspora and exile, of subsumed identity and allurement,
merge landscape with mindscape. His history-burdened, fragmented
personas are distinctly Irish, while exhilaratingly, wholly
universal. 'Here's to the storytellers. They made sense of these
lonely and driven lives of ours.' The Lilliput Press is proud to
introduce Desmond Hogan to a twenty-first century readership.
General
Imprint: |
The Lilliput Press Ltd
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Country of origin: |
Ireland |
Release date: |
November 2005 |
First published: |
September 2007 |
Authors: |
Desmond Hogan
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Dimensions: |
215 x 136 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84351-071-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Special features >
Short stories
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LSN: |
1-84351-071-5 |
Barcode: |
9781843510710 |
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