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Granta 135: New Irish Writing
Contributor(s): Rausing, Sigrid (Editor)
ISBN: 1905881959     ISBN-13: 9781905881956
Publisher: Granta Books
OUR PRICE:   $15.29  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 808.803
Series: Magazine of New Writing
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.7" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Ireland
- Ethnic Orientation - Irish
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Granta 135 is a snapshot of contemporary Ireland, which shows where one of the world's most distinguished and independent literary traditions is today. Here international stars rub shoulders with a new generation of talent from a country which keeps producing exceptional writers.

This issue features Kevin Barry on Cork, "as intimate and homicidal as a little Marseille"; Lucy Caldwell imagining forbidden first love in Belfast; an exclusive extract of Colm T ib n's next novel, about growing up in the shadow of a famous father; fiction from Emma Donaghue about Victorian Ireland's miraculous fasting girls; and Sara Baume describing the wild allure and threat of the rural landscape.

Also featuring fiction from Colin Barrett, John Connell, Mary O'Donoghue, Roddy Doyle, Siobh n Mannion, Belinda McKeon, Sally Rooney, Donal Ryan, and William Wall; poetry from Tara Bergin, Leontia Flynn and Stephen Sexton; photography by Doug DuBois, Stephen Dock and Birte Kaufmann; with original portraits of the authors in their environment by acclaimed street photographer Eamonn Doyle.


Contributor Bio(s): Rausing, Sigrid: - Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and Everything is Wonderful, which has been translated into four different languages.