Small Things Like These
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Coal merchant Bill Furlong makes a discovery that tests his conscience.
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Ireland
Keegan’s and Joyce’s short forms can lead into Enright’s family memory or Edna O’Brien’s young women seeking independence. Bowen and Tóibín show Irish authors also writing about lives beyond Ireland. Flann O’Brien supplies an absurd mystery and Stoker a horror classic. Anna Burns’s Milkman includes a Northern Irish perspective; this literary grouping does not flatten political borders.
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- Small Things Like TheseClaire Keegan
- DublinersJames Joyce
- The Death of the HeartElizabeth Bowen
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