FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2011
"Likely to rank with the best story collections of the year."
FICTION
Released: Nov. 8, 2010
"Arresting images and troubling questions--Trevor is a master."
Sterling collection of short pieces by noted Irish writer Trevor (
Love and Summer, 2009, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2009
"A refreshing draught for Irish aficionados, but not as serious as the subtitle suggests."
NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2004
"A solid grounding to the saint's life that provides the footing necessary to explore more speculative works like, for example, E.A. Thompson's Who Was Saint Patrick? (1986)."
Freeman (Classics/Washington Univ.) sticks close to authenticated sources in this quick and rangy popular biography, which serves up a taste of life and times in Ireland and late-Roman Britain during the fifth century.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 15, 1991
"Powerful, funny, and moving: an effortless series of incidents full of droll wisdom."
Strong, original, wrenching account of growing up out of wedlock in a small Irish town, by memoirist (
Home Before Night, 1980) and playwright (Da) Leonard.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 6, 2007
"For those with a terrible thirst for foamy Hibernian whimsy."
A jolly journalist takes a junket from Down Under to the Emerald Isle in order to acquire a taste for the beverage he describes as "liquid coal."
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