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Published in USA
Jun 2006
288 pages
Genre: Short Stories & Essays
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In this sparkling collection of nineteen stories, the bestselling author of Slammerkin returns to contemporary affairs, exposing the private dilemmas that result from some of our most public controversies.
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"Throughout, Donoghue offers deadpan asides about the trappings of the recent boom times in Ireland." - PW.
"There are no weak links in this collection, which should find a home in all public libraries." - Library Journal.
"Delightful examples of Donoghue's all-encompassing talent that should be read by fans of her period pieces as well as her gay audience-indeed, by anyone who cherishes thoughtful, warm-hearted fiction." - Kirkus.
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Emma Donoghue is an award-winning Irish writer who lives in Canada. At 38, she has published seven novels, three books of short stories, two works of literary history, two anthologies and two plays.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, on 24 October 1969, Emma is the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue. She attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart from one year in New York at the age of ten. In 1990 she earned a first-class honours BA in English and French from University College Dublin, and in 1997 a PhD (on the concept of friendship between men and women in eighteenth-century English fiction) from the University of Cambridge. Since the age of 23, Donoghue has earned her living as a full-time writer. After years of commuting between England, Ireland, and Canada, in ...
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