Collected Short Stories - Healy, Dermot
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"Dermot Healy wrote intricate and innovative short stories that, along with works by Neil Jordan and Desmond Hogan, relaunched the Irish short story tradition. Set in small-town Ireland and the equally suffocating confines of the Irish expat communities of 1970s London, Healy's stories show compassion toward the marginalized and the dispossessed. Gathering all of Healy's stories together for the first time, this collection includes the long prose-drama "Before the Off" and Healy's final short works, "Along the Lines" and "Images" --

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"Dermot Healy wrote intricate and innovative short stories that, along with works by Neil Jordan and Desmond Hogan, relaunched the Irish short story tradition. Set in small-town Ireland and the equally suffocating confines of the Irish expat communities of 1970s London, Healy's stories show compassion toward the marginalized and the dispossessed. Gathering all of Healy's stories together for the first time, this collection includes the long prose-drama "Before the Off" and Healy's final short works, "Along the Lines" and "Images" --
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Dermot Healy (1947-2014) is the author of the memoir The Bend for Home, the collection Banished Misfortune and Other Stories, and four award-winning novels: Fighting with Shadows, A Goat's Song, Sudden Times, and Long Time, No See. He also wrote five collections of poems and thirteen stage plays. Elected to Aosdána in 1986, he was the recipient of two Hennessy Literary Awards, the Tom-Gallon Award, the Encore Award, and the AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award. Keith Hopper taught Literature and Film Studies at Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education and currently teaches Writing & Literature at the Institute of Technology, Sligo. He is the author of Flann O’Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist and a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. Neil Murphy is a Professor of English at NTU, Singapore. He is the author of Irish Fiction and Postmodern Doubt and has published widely on contemporary Irish fiction.