Benedict Kiely is a writer of national and international status. His writing is at once quintessentially Irish and marvellously universal, and a generation of younger writers owe him an enduring debt of inspiration. This celebratory collection brings together for the first time Benedict Kiely's short fiction written between 1963 and 1987. The stories in this volume are rich in imagination and invention, their characters unforgettable, their humour at once affectionate and incisive. Written with apparently effortless style and craft, they amply demonstrate how Kiely's stories have become classics of the genre while at the same time expanding that genre's horizon.
- ISBN10 0413753409
- ISBN13 9780413753403
- Publish Date 7 June 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 March 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 762
- Language English