Description
Shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award - Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year
Like Dubliners, if Dubliners were "Cat Person" as a feminist mock-epic about a writer's coming of age--and every Dubliner was named Margaret.
A woman pursues the man who cut ahead of her in line. Two nice people report that a child has been left unsupervised at a local beach. Romances, old and new, shift and sour. Following Maggie Armstrong's intrepid hero, Margaret, through first love, first bad date, first job, first extremely bad date, and on into midlife and its attendant disillusionment and revelations, Old Romantics is an acutely observed and hideously entertaining collection of linked short stories from an astonishing new talent. Endearingly flawed and perilously honest, Armstrong's characters navigate a world of awkward expectation and latent hostility with piercing insight and indelible wit.
Author: Maggie Armstrong
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 04/01/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781771966610
ISBN10: 1771966610
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Feminist
- Fiction | Humorous | Dark Humor
About the Author
Maggie Armstrong's work has appeared in the Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Banshee, and elsewhere. She lives in Dublin. Old Romantics is her debut.