{"product_id":"the-art-of-the-glimpse-100-irish-short-stories-9781788548809","title":"The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish short stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe #1 Irish Times bestseller  An anthology of the very best Irish short stories  selected by Sinad Gleeson  author of Constellations. There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland  but never a collection like this. The Art of the Glimpse is a radical revision of the canon of the Irish story  uniting classic works with neglected writers and marginalised voices - women  LGBT writers  Traveller folk-tales  neglected 19th-century authors and the first wave of new Irish writers from all over the world now making a life in Ireland. Sinad Gleeson brings together stories that range from the most sublime realism to the downright bizarre and transgressive  some from established literary figures and some that have not yet been published in book form. The collection draws on a tremendous spectrum of experience: the story of a prank come good by Bram Stoker; Sally Rooney on the love languages of the new generation; Donal Ryan on the pains of ageing; Edna OBrien on the things we betray for love; James Joyce on a young woman torn between the familiar burdens and oppression of her home and the dangerous lure of romance and escape; and the internal monologue of a woman in a coma by Marian Keyes. Here too are vivid and less familiar stories by Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi  Oein De Bharduin  Blindboy Boatclub and Melatu Uche Okorie. Sinead Gleesons anthology is a marvellous representation of a rich literary tradition renewing itself in the 21st century. Contributing authors include: Samuel Beckett  Sally Rooney  Melatu Uche Okirie  William Trevor  Marian Keyes  Kevin Barry  Edna OBrien  Claire-Louise Bennett  Sheridan Le Fanu  Danielle McLaughlin  Mirtn  Cathain  Frances Molloy  Blindboy Boatclub  Elizabeth Bowen  Frank OConnor  Chiamaka Emyi-Amadi  John McGahern  Anne Enright  Mike McCormack  Maeve Brennan  Oein de Bhairduin  Eimear McBride  Sen Faolin  Cathy Sweeney.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647616671797,"sku":"ByrdShop_1788548809","price":166.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781788548809.jpg?v=1781696003","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-art-of-the-glimpse-100-irish-short-stories-9781788548809","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}