Author: Harry Crosbie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843518150
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Short stories that are love letters to hard-scrabble city life in 1960s Dublin In an expanded edition of his original privately published book of 12 stories published in December 2020, Harry Crosbie adds a further 16 tales of the Dublin of his youth. Begun during lockdown, Harry harvested his formidable memory and imagination to recreate city life during the early 1960s, told through tales of the Dublin and Dubliners who peopled his hard-scrabble world. John Banville wrote of the original volume, 'These wonderfully direct and vivid tales catch the essence of Dublin life half a century ago. They are by turns rambunctious and touching, clear-eyed and accepting, warm though never sentimental, and frequently hilarious.' Richard Ford compared his work to the writings of Mark Twain, Ring Lardner and Nelson Algren. Crosbie has now fulfilled this promise with these fresh sparkling stories propelled by character, ambition, need and greed, suffused by humanity and wit. They are peopled by family, down-at-heel aristocrats, antique dealers and auctioneers, the river and streetlife of pre-Celtic Tiger Dublin, its pubs and cafes, homes and institutions. Warm as coddle on a winter's night. Each tale is nuanced, spare and perfectly pitched. Part chamber music, part ballad and folktale, Undernose Farm Revisited bears the stamp of literature in the making.
On the Farm
Author: Anna Milbourne
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780746070741
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
This delightful series is designed to amuse young children and stimulate them to talk, encourage them to learn new words and to distinguish visual differences of shape and color. The detailed illustrations provide lots of things to find and count and there is also something out-of-place to spot. The questions on each page are there to suggest starting points for conversations.
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780746070741
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
This delightful series is designed to amuse young children and stimulate them to talk, encourage them to learn new words and to distinguish visual differences of shape and color. The detailed illustrations provide lots of things to find and count and there is also something out-of-place to spot. The questions on each page are there to suggest starting points for conversations.