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Barcelona
Mary Costello
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Description for Barcelona
Hardcover.
THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER
A GUARDIAN SUMMER READ
In Barcelona, we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel room a marriage unravels as a young wife is haunted by a past love. A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son and is exposed to his son's true nature. A woman attends a reading by a famous author and comes to some painful realisations about her own marriage.
The stories in Barcelona reveal the underlying disquiet of modern life and the sometimes brutal nature of humanity. Whether on city streets, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781805301837
SKU
9781805301837
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-3
About Mary Costello
Mary Costello lives in Galway. Her short story collection, The China Factory (2012), was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. Her first novel, Academy Street (2014), won the Irish Novel of the Year Award at the Irish Book Awards and was named overall Irish Book of the Year. The River Capture, her ... Read more
Reviews for Barcelona
Barcelona is full of devastating lines . . . Costello is working in the tradition of her literary heroes [Kafka, Musil, Coetzee]: delivering insights which are painful but also energising because of the beauty with which they're captured . . . The most impressive collection I've read in some time
JOHN SELF
The Times
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The Times
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