A collection of nine stories. The title story tells of an Irish emigrant travelling to New York with a suitcase of meat. The story conveys all the horrors and physicality of such a journey. The other stories form a web of abandoned lives, political treachery and the very texture of Irish life.
- ISBN10 0224032151
- ISBN13 9780224032155
- Publish Date 7 May 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Pages 278
- Language English