{"product_id":"after-a-dance-9781035024896","title":"After a Dance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter a Dance \u003c\/i\u003eis the compiled collection of short stories from acclaimed writer Bridget O''Connor, with an exclusive preface from the author''s daughter, Constance Straughan.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''These are some of the wildest, arresting, just plain brilliant short stories I''ve read in a long time.'' - Roddy Doyle, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Who Walked Into Doors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBridget O''Connor was one of the great short story writers of her generation. She had a voice that was viscerally funny and an eye for both the glaring reality and the absurdity of the everyday.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAfter A Dance,\u003c\/i\u003e we meet a selection of O''Connor''s most memorable characters often living on the margin of their own lives: from the anonymous thief set on an unusual prize to the hungover best man clinging to what he''s lost, to the unrepentant gold-digger who always comes out on top. From unravelling narcissists to melancholy romantics all human life is here - at its best and at its delightful wors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo call [these stories] characterful is to undersell these Technicolor prose screams, these screeching narrative sprints, this filthy feast of stories. \u003cb\u003eThink Irvine Welsh meets Edna O’Brien \u003c\/b\u003e. . . \u003cb\u003epure, delicious naughty fun\u003c\/b\u003e. * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese are some of the wildest, arresting, just plain brilliant short stories I've read in a long time.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Roddy Doyle\u003cbr\u003eA storytelling genius before her time * The Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eWickedly funny, stylishly written, I relished each and every one of these stories * Patrick McCable *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvery O’Connor story is a performance, a live fight with time and decay, disgust and the human body. \u003c\/b\u003eShe wrote intensely from her time and place; to read her now is to be catapulted back to 1990s London. Yet the voice, the themes are more relevant than ever. No wonder she was so preoccupied with temporality:\u003cb\u003e she was before her time\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Martina Evans * The Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003e'[Bridget O'Connor] was \u003cb\u003ean incredible short story writer \u003c\/b\u003e. . . hilarious, tragic, shuddering -- Laura Hackett * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eMostly brief, sometimes brutal, always funny \u003c\/b\u003e. . . a master of the [short story]. The results are \u003cb\u003eboth vivacious and vicious\u003c\/b\u003e. But even at their most painful, they sing * The Herald *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738046968151,"sku":"9781035024896","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781035024896.jpg?v=1723811709","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/after-a-dance-9781035024896","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}