The Quick and the Dead

Mairtin O Cadhain, Louis de Paor (Introduction by)

$28.00
$7.98

Adding to cart… The item has been added
Author
Mairtin O Cadhain, Louis de Paor (Introduction by)
Publish Date
2021-10-26
Subtitle
Selected Stories
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
352
Publisher Name
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300247214
ISBN-13
9780300247213
citemno
263705
SKU
9780300247213

Description

A collection of the finest stories from the Irish author of The Dirty Dust, published fifty years after his death

“Every sentence is packed with explosive power, not a word wasted, and the whole is almost unbearably moving.”—Hilary Mantel

These colorful tales from renowned Irish author Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906–1970) whisk readers to the salty western shores of Ireland, where close‑knit farming communities follow the harsh rhythms of custom, family, and land, even as they dream together of a kinder world. In this collection, the resilient women and men of the Gaeltacht regions struggle toward self‑realization against the brutal pressures of rural poverty, and later, the hollowing demands of modern city life.

Weaving together tradition and modernity, and preserving the earthy cadence of the original language, this rich and heart-rending collection by one of Ireland’s most acclaimed fiction writers is a composite portrait of a country poised at the edge of irreversible transformation.