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This volume combines new collections by established authors Deirdre
Brennan and Maighread Medbh with a collection by emerging author
Nuala Ni Chonchuir. The diversity of their work reveals much skill
and insight with astute observations-sometimes comical, sometimes
sad-on the human condition and the world around us.
This is a memorable first collection from the award-winning writer,
the short stories leave a lasting impression on the mind of the
reader.
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Nuala Ni Chonchuir
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The women and men in Nude play out their desires and frustrations
from Dublin to Paris, Delhi to Barcelona, and beyond. In these
stories there are mercurial lovers, illicit affairs and mistakes
that cannot be undone. And at the centre of it all is the unclothed
body: in bedrooms, in art, and in and out of love. Award-winning
writer Nuala Ni Chonchuir uses her trademark sensual frankness,
coupled with poetic language, to weave an intoxicating spell in
these stories. If fictional worlds pivot on yearning, then the
characters in these stories yearn for passion, for understanding
and, sometimes, for freedom. In the opening tale, a naive painter
travels to early 1970's Paris and meets fellow Irish artist Micheal
O'Farrell; there she becomes the model for his iconic political
nude 'Madonna Irlanda'. Elsewhere, a master art forger is
infatuated with his lovingly carved alabaster sculpture of an
Egyptian princess, but he eventually falls foul of the Art Squad
and loses everything. The story 'Sloe Wine' sees two teenage
cousins begin a closer relationship with each other, while their
mothers untangle the knots of their own teenage years and, in so
doing, unleash a family secret. These are lush stories of visual
art, the heart and the body, in all their beauties and betrayals;
there is humour and quirkiness, but beneath that is the reassurance
of truth - the hallmark of all quality fiction.
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