From the prize-winning author of YOUNG SKINS, comes HOMESICKNESS - a quietly caustic, startlingly beautiful and wonderfully wry new short story collection.
In these eight stories, Barrett takes us back to the barren backwaters of County Mayo, via Toronto, and illuminates the lives of outcasts, misfits and malcontents with an eye for the abrupt and absurd. A quiet night in the neighbourhood pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword wielding fugitive. A funeral party teeters on the edge of this world and the next, as ghosts won't simply lay in wake.
A shooting sees an everyday call-out lead a policewoman to confront the banality of her own existence.
A true follow-up to his electrifying debut collection, HOMESICKNESS marks Colin Barrett out as our most brilliantly original and captivating storyteller.
| ISBN: | 9781787333819 |
| Publication date: | 10th March 2022 |
| Author: | Colin Barrett |
| Publisher: | Jonathan Cape Ltd an imprint of Vintage Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 213 pages |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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From the prize-winning author of YOUNG SKINS, comes HOMESICKNESS - a quietly caustic, startlingly beautiful and wonderfully wry new short story collection. In these eight stories, Barrett takes us back to the barren backwaters of County Mayo, via Toronto, and illuminates the lives of outcasts, misfits and malcontents with an eye for the abrupt and absurd.
Homesickness features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction, Shorter Reads, Fiction, Fiction: special features
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Homesickness was written by Colin Barrett and published by Jonathan Cape Ltd an imprint of Vintage Publishing
Homesickness has 213 pages
