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| Author:
| Ridgway, Keith |
| ISBN: | 978-0-571-20588-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2005 |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber, Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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The stories in Keith Ridgway's new collection bring to life a strange, changing Dublin, full of pathos and wry humour; a city haunted by its future as much as by its past.
Deftly drawn and full of superbly realised characters, these stories uncover the workings of a variety of relationships - between people, place and time. Ridgway's characters negotiate their way through love, lust, anger, religious obsession, language and absence, and their stories are told with a mastery of...
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The stories in Keith Ridgway's new collection bring to life a strange, changing Dublin, full of pathos and wry humour; a city haunted by its future as much as by its past.
Deftly drawn and full of superbly realised characters, these stories uncover the workings of a variety of relationships - between people, place and time. Ridgway's characters negotiate their way through love, lust, anger, religious obsession, language and absence, and their stories are told with a mastery of narrative and dialogue which make this a refreshing, memorable and often very funny collection.