|
|
|
Bernard MacLaverty
ISBN: 9780099493037
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Vintage
Edition: New edition
Write a review
Beginning with the sudden, nauseating terror of a family caught up in an explosion of shocking sectarian violence and ending with the white-out of an Iowa blizzard and a different kind of fear, this book talks about bonds and connections, made and broken, secret and known.
A new book of stories from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but "Matters of Life and Death" is more than that, as it is - without question - the finest collection yet from a contemporary master of the form. Beginning with the sudden, nauseating terror of a family caught up in an explosion of shocking sectarian violence and ending with the white-out of an Iowa blizzard and a different kind of fear, "Matters of Life and Death" is a book about bonds and connections, made and broken, secret and known. Vivid, beautifully controlled and written with effortless skill and empathy, these stories are object lessons in the art of short fiction.
| ISBN | 0099493039 | | Pages | 240 | | ISBN13 | 9780099493037
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 160 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Vintage | | Height (mm) | 199 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 132 | | Publication date | 03 May 2007 | | Spine width (mm) | 16 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
|
| |
" These are stories in the easiest and most pleasurable sense of the word. MacLaverty's work is in a line from Chekhov, via Frank O' Connor." - "Guardian" " A masterly control of pace and structure, pitch-perfect capturing of voice, characterization that has spot-on credibility." - "Sunday Times" " This stupendous new book . . . crucial, shattering sentences that express modestly, monumentally the achievement of this extraordinary writer. He is behind your eyes before you feel his thinking knife." - "Scottish Review of Books"  Be the first to write a customer review
|
|
|
|
|
Enlarge
