Product Description

Seven short stories set in the West of Ireland. From the opening tale, "Time Passes," to the final story "Derramore," these pieces reveal the soul of a community-its hopes, dreams and schemes. In The West, fatalism and possibility run side by side, the Otherworld is as near as the Church. The double focus of the Irish.

With storyteller intimacy, Eddie Stack evokes life in a series of almost cinematic prose portraits of people, places and situations. The stories are smooth, each one remarkably different, but the click together to form a pattern. With its wit, originality and sensitivity, The West belongs in the best tradition of Irish writing.

REVIEWS:

"Variously fantastic, comic, elegiac and nostaligic, Mr. Stack's fiction is versatile and engaging...a vivid, compassionate, authentic voice...securing (him) a place in the celebrated tradition of his country's storytelling."

New York Times Book Review


“There’s a genuinely wild and fugitive comic sence in these tales that puts one in mind of Myles na Gopaleen as much as the salt spume dam, George Makay Brown. Never sentimental, often funny, always accurate, this is pithy, finely tuned writing of a high order.”

Robert Carver, Observer (UK)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1528837 in Books
• Published on: 1989-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 115 pages

Customer Reviews

In the best tradition of Irish writing ....
Eddie Stack's stories from the West of Ireland received enthusiastic and well deserved praise from the New York Times at their publication. This is a collection of timeless, original and heartfelt work from a writer who should be better known, not only by those interested in Ireland but by all readers of good contemporary fiction.