Bernard MacLaverty: Walking the Dog, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Walking the Dog
- And Other Stories
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company, 08/1996
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393314533
- Item number:
- 10958912
- Volume:
- 212 Pages
- Weight:
- 306 g
- Format:
- 216 x 140 mm
- Thickness:
- 12 mm
- Release date:
- 1.8.1996
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
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 Catholic schoolboy playing football has a theological debate with a Protestant policeman; a chess game in Spain is a catalyst for grief and redemption; in the haunting title story a Belfast man out walking his dog is kidnapped at gunpoint.
As always, MacLaverty's writing is vivid, exact, and pellucid, his characters perfectly observed, the surface of the prose deceptively still. It is only after we enter the world of the stories that we begin to make out the huge shapes that move there: loss, love, disappointment, fierce joy. This is a powerful, honest, and moving book by one of the great storytellers of our age.
Biography
Bernard Mac Laverty, geboren 1942 in Belfast; war tätig in einem medizinischen Labor und studierte an der Universität. Veröffentlichung eines Kinderbuches und sehr erfolgreicher Kurzgeschichten. Der Autor ist Lehrer und lebt an der Westküste von Schottland.
