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Russell Working - The Irish Martyr (Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction) - 9780268044084 - V9780268044084
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The Irish Martyr (Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction)

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Description for The Irish Martyr (Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction) Paperback. Presents a collection of ten stories by an award-winning fiction writer, "Chicago Tribune" reporter, and former foreign correspondent. These stories explore the emotional repercussions of fragile humans caught in often harsh situations beyond their control. It chronicles the fictive lives that all too clearly resonates with our world. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.

Winner of the 2006 Sullivan Prize, The Irish Martyr is a collection of ten stories by Russell Working, an award-winning fiction writer, Chicago Tribune reporter, and former foreign correspondent. With an impressive imaginative reach, Working peoples his stories with unforgettable characters, giving flesh and bone to issues in the headlines.

Ranging widely in voice and place, these stories explore the emotional repercussions of fragile humans caught in often harsh situations beyond their control. That we respond to their pathos and humor, resignation and anger, testifies to Working's skill as a chronicler of fictive lives that all too clearly resonate ... Read more

In the Pushcart Prize–winning title story, we meet an Egyptian girl obsessed with an armed Irishman who moves next door to her family's Sinai beach house. In "Help," a man reflects on his career spent receiving multimillion-dollar payments from deposed generals and presidents, while "Perjury" considers what happens when a boy in a Pacific Northwest town is summoned to testify in the trial of his alcoholic father. A North Korean woman flees her homeland, allowing herself to be sold as a wife to a Chinese farmer in "Dear Leader." "Slava" describes how the Chechen war touches the life of a Russian doctor in the Pacific seaport of Vladivostok.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268044084
SKU
V9780268044084
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Russell Working
Russell Working's fiction has appeared in such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, Zoetrope, The Paris Review, and The Triquarterly Review. He is a past winner of an Iowa Short Fiction Award, a Yaddo Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois.

Reviews for The Irish Martyr (Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction)
"Is there any life that Russell Working cannot imagine? In these powerful, haunting stories, he explores the private lives of Egyptian adolescent girls, a North Korean woman sold to a Chinese farmer, a Russian doctor whose child has been stolen—victims of every time and place, always with singular compassion. Outrage for the world's lost and needy fuels The Irish Martyr, ... Read more

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