Collected Short Stories

Like many of the great Irish writers before him, Dermot Healy first announced himself as a writer of intricate and innovative short stories. Healy's stories are set in small-town Ireland and its rural environs, and in the equally suffocating confines of the Irish expat communities in London. Throughout these texts, Healy demonstrates a deep sense of compassion towards the marginalized and the dispossessed, without ever becoming sentimental or clich d. The language is earthy and imagistic by turn, and he continually seeks to extend the formal boundaries of the genre.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."

Author: Dermot Healy
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Published: 10/16/2015
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781564786784
ISBN10: 1564786781
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)

About the Author

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.