Walking the Dog, and Other Stories: And Other Stories

By Bernard MacLaverty

Book Overview

This long-awaited new collection from the noted Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty examines worlds in collision, relationships fragmenting, innocence coming face to face with real life and real death. A... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393037584
• ISBN13: 9780393037586
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

highly recommended

Highly recommended story collection for anyone who likes spare, richly suggestive prose in the Carver-Hemingway-early McEwan vein. MacLaverty tells deeply evocative stories of ordinary people without any literary tricks or cheap bendings toward genre. He helps you understand what daily life is like in Ireland while thankfully avoiding Irish kitsch. In these empathetic stories, he creates characters whose fear, anger, doubt and general misgivings about life seldom cancel out caring for others. I'm new to MacLaverty having also just read his short(and also extraordinary)novel Lamb. I plan to read all his work.