The Man Booker prize-winning author's critically acclaimed selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years, following Richard Ford's best-selling Granta Book of the American Short Story.
Anne Enright has published essays, short stories, a non-fiction
book about motherhood and four novels including The Gathering,
winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize. She lives in Dublin.
Enright has assembled a collection notable for its emotional range,
its openness to many voices (not all lonely) and its willingness to
reflect current realities. There is no conclusive formula linking
such disparate narratives, no slick exploitation of Irishness, but
rather a rich interplay of themes that capture a world in
transition
*Irish Times*
A rich and absorbing volume, an evocation of life in Ireland which,
at its finest, produces brilliantly skewering fragments written to
pierce as well as gleam ... Enright's choice is a shrewd one,
succeeding in typifying each writer whilst expressing their
uniqueness
*Scotland on Sunday*
A book that intoxicates you with the sheer scope and potency of the
short story form
*Metro*
The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story is more cherishable than
canonical, and refreshingly contemporary in its selection of
writers and writerly concerns
*Times Literary Supplement*
[Anne Enright's] witty, brilliant introduction is one of the jewels
in this selection ... When making her choices she concentrated on
the art rather than the Irishness, and the result is sometimes
wonderfully unexpected - here are William Trevor, Colm Tóibín,
Roddy Doyle, Clare Boylan and all the other geniuses, but not as
you think you know them. Unmissable
*The Times*
In an elegant and considered introduction to this collection,
[Enright] explains that these short stories are simply ones she
enjoys. However, the 31 inclusions cannot but say something about
Ireland ... 'A Priest in the Family' by Colm Tóibín is superb ...
Edna O'Brien offers another fresh take on the sexuality of the
clergy ... The further positives of The Granta Book of the Irish
Short Story are too many to mention ... In this collection you
encounter loners, outsiders and deeper versions of people you know;
and eventually, one will say something just to you, and the mystery
of the Irish short story comes as close as it can to being
understood
*Sunday Times Ireland*
We may not be very good at economics or honest politics, but we
certainly know how to write a short story. The excellent Granta
Book of the Irish Short Story, edited by Anne Enright, is a
must-read.
*Irish Times*
Full of tales that combine lyricism, humour and tragedy by the
likes of William Trevor as well as relative newcomers such as
Claire Keegan and Philip Ó Ceallaigh, it is shot through with an
enduring sense of place but at the same time marks the enormous
social changes Ireland has undergone in the past century
*Conde Nast Traveller*
This collection makes a bewitching bedside companion, amply
illustrating that the Irish short story is very much alive and
kicking
*Lady*
The collection shines with personality, studiously avoiding what
the editor describes as "charm", or "God save the mark", Irish
charm
*Independent*
From Roddy Doyle to Elizabeth Bowen, and William Trevor to Edna
O'Brien, a wealth of authors are contained within this excellent
collection of modern Irish short fiction
*Metro*
An eclectic mix of intriguing short stories ... each story leaves
you hungry for the next one
*Big Issue in the North*
This collection attempts to define the essential Irish aspects of
the stories chosen ... the best pieces here serve as a prompt to
find or rediscover the writers' other works
*Guardian*
An] excellent miscellany of modern short fiction from Ireland ...
Throughout, the prose is economical, in the sense of being deft,
not sparse ... The prevailing mode is an everyday realism of
carefully observed gestures and lifelike dialogue, well adapted to
the mental turmoil of lustful, lovelorn protagonists ... Wisely,
the stories are arranged imaginatively, not chronologically - think
mix tape, not reference work - so, unlike many anthologies, this is
a book you actually want to sit down with and read
*Observer*
Over 400 pages of amazing writing
*Irish Daily Mail*
A dazzling collection
*Guardian*
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