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Walking the Dog: And Other Stories
This 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. It is only once we enter the world of the stories that we begin to make out the huge shapes that move there: loss, love, disappointment, fierce joy.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Aug 1st, 1996
- Pages: 212
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.02in - 5.39in - 0.50in - 0.47lb
- EAN: 9780393314533
- Categories: • Short Stories (single author)
About the Author
MacLaverty, Bernard: - Bernard MacLaverty is the author of five previous collections of stories and five novels, including Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Midwinter Break, shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Born in Ireland, he now lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
Praise for this book
A consummate storyteller, he reveals the turbulence beneath the deceptive stillness of life. . . . Highly recommended.-- "Library Journal"
