Granta 135: New Irish Writing Contributor(s): Rausing, Sigrid (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1905881959 ISBN-13: 9781905881956 Publisher: Granta Books OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
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. |