Blank pages : and other stories /

Blank pages : and other stories /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	MacLaverty, Bernard, author.
Edition:	First American edition.
Imprint:	New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2022. ©2021
Description:	261 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. Short stories, Irish -- 21st century. Short stories. Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Short stories.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12704749

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ISBN:	9780393881592 0393881598 9780393881608
Summary:	"A collection of twelve powerful and moving new stories from one of Ireland's most celebrated writers. Tinged with melancholy but rooted in resiliency, the exquisite stories of Bernard MacLaverty's Blank Pages display the perseverance of the human spirit. In "A Love Picture," a middle-aged woman, already no stranger to loss, consults a WWII news reel to determine the fate of her son. The harrowing but transcendent "The End of Days" imagines life in another pandemic as artist Egon Schiele and his wife, both stricken with the Spanish flu, spend their final days together. And in the poignant title story, an elderly writer takes stock of what remains after losing his life partner. "A master of fine detail" (Anne Enright), MacLaverty captures the joys and sorrows of everyday existence with "extraordinary emotional precision" (Colm Tóibín). Blank Pages elegantly probes MacLaverty's signature themes-domestic love, Catholicism, the Troubles, aging-with compassion and insight, reminding us again why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers"--

Table of Contents:

A Love Picture: Belfast 1940
Glasshouses
Soup Mix
Searching: Belfast 1971
Night Work
The Fairly Good Samaritan
The End of Days: Vienna 1918
The Dust Gatherer
Wandering
Blank Pages
Sounds and Sweet Airs
Blackthorns: County Derry 1942.