Desmond Hogan

Old Swords

And Other Stories

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Includes ten stories that collect minted shards of experience focused in the lives of the dreamers and the marginalized who populate the author's imagined worlds.

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This bricolage of melded history and a fragmented modernism renders truth-to-experience like no other contemporary voice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lilliput Press
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 24mm x 144mm x 223mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9781843511441
• ISBN-10: 1843511444
• Artikelnr.: 28954445

Autorenporträt

Desmond Hogan is the author of The Ikon Maker, A Curious Street, Leaves on Grey, A New Shirt, and A Farewell to Prague. His short-story collection The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea won the 1980 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize; others include Larks' Eggs: New and Selected Stories and House of Mourning and Other Stories. In 1971 he won the Hennessy Literary Award, in 1977 the Rooney Prize for Literature, and in 1991 was awarded the DAAD Fellowship in Berlin. Editions Grasset & Fasquelle in Paris have acquired all his works for translation into French, embarking in 2015 and concluding in 2022.