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Giving Ground: Stories
Colm O'Gaora
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Description for Giving Ground: Stories
Paperback. Very good clean copy
This is a finely crafted and richly evocative first collection. From an Irish landscape that runs into the Atlantic to distant, unfamiliar cities, Colm O'Gaora's stories occupy the territory of love and loss. Moments of bitter-sweet epiphany are captures in a single image: A plane tree in the urban fairy-tale 'The Carnival of Light'; the glass bowl of cut silver hair from 'In This World'; a river transformed in 'Train Above the City'. These stories are about conflict and choices: between the old and the new; staying or leaving; loyalty or betrayal.
This is a finely crafted and richly evocative first collection. From an Irish landscape that runs into the Atlantic to distant, unfamiliar cities, Colm O'Gaora's stories occupy the territory of love and loss. Moments of bitter-sweet epiphany are captures in a single image: A plane tree in the urban fairy-tale 'The Carnival of Light'; the glass bowl of cut silver hair from 'In This World'; a river transformed in 'Train Above the City'. These stories are about conflict and choices: between the old and the new; staying or leaving; loyalty or betrayal.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
1st Edition
Yes
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224033411
SKU
KSG0026932
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Colm O'Gaora
Colm O'Gaora was born in Dublin in 1966. His stories have been shortlisted for a number of literary awards; 'Magnets' appeared in Best Short Stories 1991. He lives in London.
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