Dermot Healy wrote intricate and innovative short stories that, along with works by Neil Jordan and Desmond Hogan, relaunched the Irish short story tradition. Set in small-town Ireland and the equally suffocating confines of the Irish expat communities of 1970s London, Healy's stories show compassion toward the marginalized and the dispossessed. Gathering all of Healy's stories together for the first time, this collection includes the long prose-drama "After the Off" and Healy's final short works, "Along the Lines" and "Images."
- ISBN10 156478598X
- ISBN13 9781564785985
- Publish Date 31 December 2015 (first published 3 December 2015)
- Publish Status Postponed Indefinitely
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dalkey Archive Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 300
- Language English