Description
The Dogs of Inishere collects stories from across Alannah Hop-
kin's thirty-year career as a fiction and travel writer. The stories presented here move from adolescence to middle age, sensitive always to the particular social, emotional, and intellectual challenges of the different phases of a life.
An adolescent girl bristles against the gendered assumptions and expectations o mid-sixties London. A young writer struggles to commit fully to the artist's life. A group of pub regulars in a sleepy seaside town observe the quiet disappointments of love and marriage. Along the way, Hopkin's protagonists, often writers themselves, wrestle with the influence of literary figures from the past, including Austen, Byron, Poe, Wilde, Lowry, and B.S. Johnson.
About the Author
Alannah Hopkin is a novelist, travel writer, and critic. She has published two novels, A Joke Goes a Long Way in the Country and The Out-haul, as well as numerous travel guides to Ireland, and she regularly reviews books for the Irish Examiner. The Dogs of Inishere is her first story collection.
Reviews
A warmly rendered collection.
* Kirkus Reviews *[A]n impressive collection, the clear, confident style allowing each central crisis to be revealed with rewarding clarity and directness.
* The Irish Times *Book Information
ISBN 9781943150083
Author Alannah Hopkin
Format Paperback
Page Count 132
Imprint Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
