Irish Literature - House of Mourning and Other Stories

There Is No Doubt That Desmond Hogan Is One Of Most Remarkable Literary Talents To Have Come Out Of Ireland In The Past Half-century, And Perhaps The Best Introduction To His Work Is Through His Magnificent Short Stories, Widely Anthologized And Praised Throughout The World. Focusing As Always On The Downtrodden And The Eccentric, The Misplaced And The Dispossessed, Hogan's Stories Merge Past With Present, Landscape With Mindscape, Distinctly Irish And Burdened By History, While Exhilaratingly And Wholly Universal And Modern. The Last Time -- The Mourning Thief -- Memories Of Swinging London -- A Marriage In The Country -- Ties -- Miles -- Martyrs -- Winter Swimmers -- Caravans -- Shelter -- Pictures -- Lark's Eggs -- Iowa -- Belle -- Little Friends -- Red Tide -- Sweet Majoram -- The Hare's Purse -- The House Of Mourning -- Essex Skipper -- Old Swords -- Wooden Horse. Desmond Hogan. There is no doubt that Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century, and perhaps the best introduction to his work is through his magnificent short stories, widely anthologized and praised throughout the world. Focusing as always on the downtrodden and the eccentric, the misplaced and the dispossessed, Hogan's stories merge past with present, landscape with mindscape—distinctly Irish and burdened by history, while exhilaratingly and wholly universal and modern. There is no doubt that Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century, and perhaps the best introduction to his work is through his magnificent short stories, widely anthologized and praised throughout the world. Focusing as always on the downtrodden and the eccentric, the misplaced and the dispossessed, Hogan's stories merge past with present, landscape with mindscape#x96;distinctly Irish and burdened by history, while exhilaratingly and wholly universal and modern