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A collection of the finest stories from the Irish author of The Dirty Dust, published fifty years after his death

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2022 PROSE Award Finalist, Literature category

“One of the most visionary writers ever to come out of Ireland.”—Belinda McKeon, Irish Independent

“Every sentence is packed with explosive power, not a word wasted, and the whole is almost unbearably moving.”—Hilary Mantel

"This is an important collection. An encounter with Ó Cadhain's work broadens the entire landscape of the Irish short story. It becomes darker, more far flung, and imaginatively turbulent."—Mike McCormack

"Ó Cadhain's stories are an integral part of the radical, antic, and mischievous stream of work that began to flow through Irish writing in the mid-twentieth century—in a happy alternative universe, he might be as celebrated now as Flann O'Brien or Samuel Beckett. He was an innovator and a glorious comedian."—Kevin Barry

The Quick and the Dead Selected Stories

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    A Hardback by Mairtin O Cadhain, Louis de Paor

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      Publisher: Yale University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 26/10/2021
      ISBN13: 9780300247213, 978-0300247213
      ISBN10: 0300247214

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A collection of the finest stories from the Irish author of The Dirty Dust, published fifty years after his death

      Trade Review
      2022 PROSE Award Finalist, Literature category

      “One of the most visionary writers ever to come out of Ireland.”—Belinda McKeon, Irish Independent

      “Every sentence is packed with explosive power, not a word wasted, and the whole is almost unbearably moving.”—Hilary Mantel

      "This is an important collection. An encounter with Ó Cadhain's work broadens the entire landscape of the Irish short story. It becomes darker, more far flung, and imaginatively turbulent."—Mike McCormack

      "Ó Cadhain's stories are an integral part of the radical, antic, and mischievous stream of work that began to flow through Irish writing in the mid-twentieth century—in a happy alternative universe, he might be as celebrated now as Flann O'Brien or Samuel Beckett. He was an innovator and a glorious comedian."—Kevin Barry

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