His stories are fillled with the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and of human experience.
The stories all centre around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the beginning of the twentieth century. They offer a moving portrait of an entire world and era long since disappeared.
Publisher: Everyman
ISBN: 9781857150490
Number of pages: 360
Dimensions: 211 x 134 x 17 mm
Weight: 503 g
Language: English
I Who Have Never Known Men
We All Live Here
The Correspondent
The Things We Never Say
When the Cranes Fly South
The Wedding People
Taiwan Travelogue
What We Can Know
The Divorce
Atmosphere
Wild Dark Shore
Heated Rivalry
The Long Shoe
The Housemaid
I came to this book having never read Joyce before and this time out only for the purposes of revision for exams. I know that many people regard this book extremely highly but I found it to be rather dull. The stories... More
A series of short stories, but not satisfying like a Guy de Maupassant. Apart from the last chapter, they are more observational of lives in Dublin than « stories ». Very little character development or purpose in the... More
This book is a series of short stories observing lives in Dublin. It is a simple and straight forward read.
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