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Old Swords: And Other Stories

By (author) Desmond Hogan

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These eleven stories by Desmond Hogan, his first publication since Larks’ Eggs: New and Selected Stories (2005), collect newly minted shards of experience focused on the lives of the dreamers and marginalized who populate his imagined worlds. They range in time and place from France, Germany and Italy in the nineteenth century to Ireland of the 1950s and the present day. Their concerns are fragility and identity expressed through the outer semblances of dress and deportment, and inner realities of involuntary memory and the retrieval of shared pasts. Close observation of nature combines with psychological unveilings, much of it in the form of erotic reverie. This bricolage of melded history and a fragmented modernism renders truth-to-experience like no other contemporary voice.

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Normally shipped | Usually dispatched in 3 to 4 weeks as supplier is out of stock
Publisher | The Lilliput Press Ltd
Published date | 13 Oct 2009
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 140
Dimensions | 220 x 140 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 500g
ISBN | 978-1-8435-1144-1
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BISAC | fiction / short stories (single author)

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