A Close Shave With The Devil: Stories of Dublin - Softcover

May, Ena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1901866173 ISBN 13: 9781901866179

Verlag: The Lilliput Press Ltd, 1998

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Book by Ena May

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This collection of eight short stories by a child-narrator present a twilit, late-1940s Dublin. With her pal Itchy Ryder, Eily inhabits secret childhood places, roof or field, as well as the grown up kitchens and parlours of Blarney Park, twitching the veil between private and public spaces.

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With a tapestry of eight intertwined stories, the persona of gimlet-eyed Eily Doolin is the quintessential young pubescent abroad in late-1940s Ireland. These are richly observed, unsettling tales by a child narrator. With her pal Itchy Ryder, Eily inhabits secret childhood places, roof or field, as well as the grown-up kitchens and parlors of Blarney Park, twitching the veil between private and public spaces, house and street.

As adult conversations are reported, gruesome vignettes are unwittingly laid bare to readers versed in the language of euphemism, exposing the pathology of the family unit, casual racism, loneliness, domestic abuse, as well as intense warmth and humor: an abused neighbor takes revenge on her elderly husband, a young boy exacts a terrible revenge on his mother, a woman retrieves her husband from the Argentinian Tango-dancer, and The Devil has been sighted going around town. These are powerful, coming-of-age fables which perfectly convey an era gone.

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• Verlag: The Lilliput Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1901866173
• ISBN 13: 9781901866179
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 159