Fr. 26.90

The Comets - Collected Shorter Fiction

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 01.10.2026

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''For over thirty years, Eoin McNamee has been one of the outstanding writers of his generation'' David Peace ''McNamee''s books are intense and compressed, but so carefully worked that they read smoothly'' The Times Featuring stories from the fringes, of the dispossessed, haunted, and afflicted lives in Northern Ireland and the borderlands, this collection explores the fates of ordinary people when survival is the only choice. In illuminated, radiant prose McNamee circles Irish coastal communities with a fisheye lens that inflates our senses and allows us to see beyond the exterior. In these stories we encounter kinship in unlikely places, addiction that is stripping and stark in revelling in the wounded and love that slices deep into the lesions of history. With criminal encounters in dorm rooms, the ghosts of young women lost to the untrusting tides and families torn apart by violence, McNamee is unrelenting in thrusting close the volatile lives of those enduring the trials of troubling history and dire circumstance - so that even when you want to you can''t look away. In sharp, precise prose McNamee proves his stylistic authority over his characters and settings and reveals himself again as the master of contemporary Irish fiction.

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Authors Eoin McNamee
Publisher Riverrun
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 01.10.2026
 
EAN 9781529449969
ISBN 978-1-5294-4996-9
No. of pages 224
Subjects FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Literary, Northern Ireland, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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