Walking the dog, and other stories
by MacLaverty, Bernard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0393037584
- ISBN 13
- 9780393037586
- Seller
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About This Item
New York : Norton, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Edition; First edition and first printing. Physical description; 198 pages ; 22 cm. Contents; On the art of the short story -- Walking the dog -- The voyeur -- The grandmaster -- The fountain pen shop woman -- A silent retreat -- Looking out the window, 1 -- At the beach -- By train -- The wake house -- A visit to Norway -- In bed -- This fella I knew -- A foreign dignitary -- O'Donnell v. Your Man -- compensations -- St Mungo's mansion -- Just visiting -- Looking out the window, 2.Summary; A collection from an Irish writer. In the title story a man is kidnapped by the IRA while walking his dog, in Silent Retreat, a Catholic schoolboy has a theological debate with a Protestant jail guard, and The Grandmaster is on a chess game in Spain which turns into a catalyst for grief and redemption. Subjects; Short stories.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 233286
- Title
- Walking the dog, and other stories
- Author
- MacLaverty, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393037584
- ISBN 13
- 9780393037586
- Publisher
- New York : Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
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