Short fiction from one of Ireland's great playwrights. Each of these ten stories is set in the north western counties of Ireland and deals with the everyday faiths and hopes that help their characters to survive. In many of them there is makebelieve and illusions, the necessary self-deceptions that enhance memory. In all of them there is humor, resilience and dignity.
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Short fiction from one of Ireland's great playwrights. Each of these ten stories is set in the north western counties of Ireland and deals with the everyday faiths and hopes that help their characters to survive. In many of them there is makebelieve and illusions, the necessary self-deceptions that enhance memory. In all of them there is humor, resilience and dignity.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. 128 p. Audience: General/trade. Second edition published in 1994, fifteen years after the original. Full black cloth with spine title in silver, illustrated dust jacket. A fine clean tight unmarked copy in equally fine dust jacket. This edition published simultaneously in soft and hard covers, this hardcover edition is now uncommon.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. Reissue. Cover portrait by Basil Blackshaw. Octavo. 126pp. Prior owner name on the verso of the front blank whited out (approximately 1½" x 1½"), binding trifle cocked else fine in fine dust jacket with a tiny bit of wear. Signed by Friel on the title page. First published by Gallery Books in 1979 with an introduction by Seamus Deane not reproduced here.
