Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2402826 in Books
• Published on: 2001-06-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 608 pages

Synopsis
Benedict Kiely is a writer of national and international status. His writing is at once quintessentially Irish and marvellously universal, and a generation of younger writers owe him an enduring debt of inspiration. This celebratory collection brings together for the first time Benedict Kiely's short fiction written between 1963 and 1987. The stories in this volume are rich in imagination and invention, their characters unforgettable, their humour at once affectionate and incisive. Written with apparently effortless style and craft, they amply demonstrate how Kiely's stories have become classics of the genre while at the same time expanding that genre's horizon.

Customer Reviews

Ben Kiely is a master writer, a world treasure.
Ben Kiely is a novelist, journalist, biographer, short story writer and gathered in this book are his greatest short stories plus "Proxopera," a novella, undoubtedly the clearest indictment of violence by terrorists in fiction. His work is a joy to read and savor. His stories take place in Dublin, Belfast, Atlanta, GA., London but most of all in Co. Tyrone where he was born and grew up. He writes about individuals and their interaction with each other, the landscape and the trials and triumphs of the times and places where they live. The writing is lyrical (one should read it out load to hear the musical cadences) and laced with occassional digressions but each story is complete at the end, embracing a comprehensiveness of time, place and character that is extraordinary.