We Seldom Talk About the Past

Selected Short Stories

We Seldom Talk About the Past
John MacKenna
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Trade Paperback
h216 x 135mm - 368pg
12 Aug 2021 IRE
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9781848408036
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We Seldom Talk About the Past is John MacKenna' s first selected collection of short stories, from a career spanning over three decades. The stories selected come from four collections of short fiction, and represent a culmination of MacKenna' s work in a form of writing he has made uniquely his own. Often compared to John McGahern, and Raymond Carver, and deeply influenced by masters of the form like Chekov, MacKenna' s stories focus on the quotidian truths of our lives, of the momentousness of small moments, of sexual desire and its intimate entanglement with the domestic, of deeply felt absences and social mores, and always at the heart of his work, the sense of place, often the rural, and the acute receptiveness of our lives to the places we inhabit.
JOHN MACKENNA is the author of fifteen books - novels, short-story collections, memoir, poetry and biography - and a number of radio and stage plays. He is a winner of The Irish Times, Hennessy and Cecil Day-Lewis Awards. He is also a winner of a Jacobs Radio award for his documentary series on Leonard Cohen and a Worldplay Silver Medal (New York) for his radio play The Woman at the Window (RTE Radio 1).
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ISBN-13: 9781848408036
Published: 12 Aug 2021
Published In: Ireland
Imprint: New Island Books
Publisher: New Island Books
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Spine: 40mm
Weight: 400g
Pages: 368

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