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Wild Houses
Colin Barrett
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R530
R432
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The remarkable, funny and thrilling debut novel from the acclaimed,
prize-winning author of the short story collections, Young Skins
and Homesickness As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the
year, the simmering feud between small-time dealer, Cillian
English, and County Mayo's fraternal enforcers, Gabe and Sketch
Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum. When the
reclusive Dev answers his door on Friday night he finds Doll -
Cillian's bruised, sullen, teenage brother - in the clutches of
Gabe and Sketch. Jostled by his nefarious cousins, goaded by his
dead mother's dog and struck by spinning lights, Dev is unwillingly
drawn headlong into the Ferdias' revenge fantasy. Meanwhile,
seventeen-year-old Nicky can't shake the feeling something bad has
happened to her boyfriend Doll. Hungover, reeling from a fractious
Friday night and plagued by ghosts of her own, Nicky sets out on a
feverish mission to save Doll, even as she questions her future in
Ballina. The beautifully crafted, thrillingly-told story of two
outsiders striving to find themselves as their worlds collapse in
chaos and violence, Wild Houses is the long-anticipated debut novel
from award-winning and critically-acclaimed short story writer,
Colin Barrett. PRAISE FOR HOMESICKNESS ------------ 'A
mesmerizingly powerful book, full of the strangeness and beauty of
life' SALLY ROONEY, author of NORMAL PEOPLE 'A masterwork - by
turns hilarious and heart-breaking... What fierce, tender stories.
Totally unforgettable' BRANDON TAYLOR, author of REAL LIFE
'Homesickness is one of the finest collections I've read this year.
There is so much life in these pages, captured through the sharpest
observations but the lightest touch. Superb' DOUGLAS STUART, author
of SHUGGIE BAIN 'Barrett is already one of the leading writers of
the Irish short story... He just kills it' ANNE ENRIGHT, author of
THE GATHERING 'Addictive, stylish and violently funny stories, with
riches on every page - an outstanding collection' KEVIN BARRY,
author of NIGHT BOAT TO TANGIER 'Edgy, sharp and utterly original,
Homesickness is an utterly compelling collection and Barrett is
meticulous' ELAINE FEENEY, author of HOW TO BUILD A BOAT
The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author
of critical smash Young Skins, winner of 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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Wild Houses
Colin Barrett
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R355
R277
Discovery Miles 2 770
Save R78 (22%)
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Ships in 5 - 10 working days
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The remarkable, funny and thrilling debut novel from the acclaimed,
prize-winning author of the short story collections, Young Skins
and Homesickness As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the
year, the simmering feud between small-time dealer, Cillian
English, and County Mayo's fraternal enforcers, Gabe and Sketch
Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum. When the
reclusive Dev answers his door on Friday night he finds Doll -
Cillian's bruised, sullen, teenage brother - in the clutches of
Gabe and Sketch. Jostled by his nefarious cousins, goaded by his
dead mother's dog and struck by spinning lights, Dev is unwillingly
drawn headlong into the Ferdias' revenge fantasy. Meanwhile,
seventeen-year-old Nicky can't shake the feeling something bad has
happened to her boyfriend Doll. Hungover, reeling from a fractious
Friday night and plagued by ghosts of her own, Nicky sets out on a
feverish mission to save Doll, even as she questions her future in
Ballina. The beautifully crafted, thrillingly-told story of two
outsiders striving to find themselves as their worlds collapse in
chaos and violence, Wild Houses is the long-anticipated debut novel
from award-winning and critically-acclaimed short story writer,
Colin Barrett. PRAISE FOR HOMESICKNESS ------------ 'A
mesmerizingly powerful book, full of the strangeness and beauty of
life' SALLY ROONEY, author of NORMAL PEOPLE 'A masterwork - by
turns hilarious and heart-breaking... What fierce, tender stories.
Totally unforgettable' BRANDON TAYLOR, author of REAL LIFE
'Homesickness is one of the finest collections I've read this year.
There is so much life in these pages, captured through the sharpest
observations but the lightest touch. Superb' DOUGLAS STUART, author
of SHUGGIE BAIN 'Barrett is already one of the leading writers of
the Irish short story... He just kills it' ANNE ENRIGHT, author of
THE GATHERING 'Addictive, stylish and violently funny stories, with
riches on every page - an outstanding collection' KEVIN BARRY,
author of NIGHT BOAT TO TANGIER 'Edgy, sharp and utterly original,
Homesickness is an utterly compelling collection and Barrett is
meticulous' ELAINE FEENEY, author of HOW TO BUILD A BOAT
The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author
of critical smash Young Skins, winner of 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.
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.
Back in 1983 I was chatting with Dick Coleman, publisher of Traffic
World magazine, when he unexpectedly proposed that I write a column
for the magazine on computer applications in the
transportation/physical distribution industry. "But, Dick, I don't
know all that much about computers," I protested. "You use one,
don't you?" he asked logically. Yes, I did; I'd been running my
consulting business with it for two years. But that didn't, I
explained, make me an expert. "Think about it," he said. That's
typical Coleman; he drops these studiedly casual ideas and just
lets them lay there until you pick them up and wind up doing just
what he wanted you to do all along. Sure enough, the longer I
pondered the notion the more it appealed to me. OK, I wasn't a
computer expert (I'm still not). But I was a computer user, in the
transportation/distribution field; maybe from that perspective I
might have some useful things to say to other
transportation/distribution users and would-be users of computers.
Thus was born the "Computer Software for Transportation" column.
The first one appeared in the April 11, 1983, issue of Traffic
World, and it's been a once-a-month schedule ever since. And thus,
too, was ultimately born this book.
In the time-worn traditions of the transportation industry, ship
pers and carriers regard one another as enemies. There is, to be
sure, a certain degree of validity to such a viewpoint. An element
of conflict will naturally be present in any vendor-purchaser
relationship. The two, after all, are seeking distinctly different
things from that relationship; and to a con siderable extent each
party's success in realizing its own goals must be achieved at the
expense of the other. At the same time, however, viewing that
relationship as strictly zero-sum-a gain by one side always
resulting in an equal and offsetting loss by the other-is a gross
misconception. It overlooks the key reality that, no matter which
party comes closest to its own objectives, the relationship, and
the business transactions that flow from it, must ultimately
benefit both. Without that level of mutual benefit the relationship
will simply not exist (or will soon founder if it somehow does come
into being); for it is only the self-interest of the two parties
that impels them to establish and continue that relationship at
all. In transportation, however, this element of mutuality-the
attitude that the parties share a common interest in nurturing
their relationship-is often forgotten. Instead of working to gether
as, fundamentally, partners in a business transaction from which
both expect to derive gains, they dedicate the bulk of their
energies to fighting, rather than cooperating, with one another."
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Young Skins (Paperback)
Colin Barrett
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R305
R247
Discovery Miles 2 470
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WINNER OF THE 2014 GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 'One of the best books
of the past decade... The characters are edgy, often violent,
locked into a world described in ways that are both harsh and
tender. . . Adds a sense of myth, even a spiritual aura, to the
narrative that lifts the meanness of the circumstances into some
other realm' Colm Toibin, Washington Post *Winner of the 2014 Frank
O'Connor International Short Story Award *Winner of the 2014 Rooney
Prize for Irish Literature This magnificent collection takes us to
Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the
youth have the run of the place. Boy racers speed down the back
lanes; couples haunt the midnight woods; young skins huddle in the
cold once The Peacock has closed its doors. Here the young live
hard and wear the scars. It matters whose sister you were seen
with. If you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, it matters a
very great deal. Colin Barrett's debut does not take us to
Glanbeigh alone; there are other towns, and older characters. But
each story is defined by a youth lived in a crucible of menace and
desire - and each crackles with the uniform energy and force that
distinguish this terrific collection.
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