Description
| Product ID: | 9781035024896 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | After a Dance |
| Subtitle: | Selected Stories |
| Authors: | Author: Bridget O'Connor |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A visceral, entertaining and unforgettable collection of stories from the celebrated author and screenwriter, Bridget O'Connor. <p><b>'These are some of the wildest, arresting, just plain brilliant short stories I've read in a long time.' - Roddy Doyle, author of <i>The Woman Who Walked Into Doors<br><br>After a Dance</i> is the compiled collection of short stories from acclaimed writer Bridget O'Connor, with an exclusive preface from the author's daughter, Constance Straughan.</b><br><br>Bridget O'Connor was one of the great short story writers of her generation. She had a voice that was viscerally funny and an eye for both the glaring reality and the absurdity of the everyday.<br><br>In <i>After A Dance</i>, we meet a selection of O'Connor's most memorable characters often living on the margin of their own lives: from the anonymous thief set on an unusual prize to the hungover best man clinging to what he's lost, to the unrepentant gold-digger who always comes out on top. From unravelling narcissists to melancholy romantics all human life is here - at its best and at its delightful worst.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-02-15 |
