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Set in Ireland, these stories probe the lives of outsiders--loners, exiles, immigrants, and pilgrims--and the disenchantment and pervasive melancholy with which they wrestle from day-to-day.
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One of Ireland's most important writers at his finest. Written over a period of twelve years, these stories seem to move nowehere with relentless, slow precision, yet each is as fulfilling and rich with suggestion as a full-scale novel.
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