A Slanting of the Sun
Stories
Hanover, New Hampshire : Steerforth Press, [2015]
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: 204 pages ; 21 cm
A collection of stories that explores the brutal failures of the human heart in the face of loneliness, displacement, and mundanity.
Contents:
The passion -- Tommy and Moon -- Trouble -- The squad -- Nephthys and the lark -- Sky -- From a starless night -- Hanora Ryan, 1998 -- The house of the big small ones -- Ragnarok -- Physiotherapy -- Long puck -- Losers weepers -- Grace -- Retirement do -- Aisling -- Crouch end introductions -- Meryl -- Royal blue -- A slanting of the sun.
ISBN:
9781586422356
Twenty short stories.
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award
Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award
Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature