Matters of Life & Death and Other Stories

ISBN-10: 039305716X
ISBN-13: 9780393057164
Category: Fiction
Pages: 231
Language: English
Published: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Author: Bernard MacLaverty

Description

A new collection of short fiction by the critically acclaimed author of Grace Notes ranges in setting and situation from a family caught up in sectarian violence to the terrifying reality of an Iowa blizzard and includes "Up the Coast," in which a landscape painter finds her peaceful existence shattered by an act of arbitrary aggression that has profound repercussions on every aspect of her life.

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