{"product_id":"collected-stories-9781582432618","title":"Collected Stories","description":"The Irish writer Clare Boylan has been publishing compelling and captivating work for over twenty years. Though she is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, she remains one of the most original and exciting short-story writers of our time. Like Alistair MacLeod, Alice Munro, and her compatriot William Trevor, her stories are universal. Hers is an imagination that is able, magically and marvelously, to transform everyday experience into something quite unexpected.\u003cp\u003eAs perceptive as Colette, as darkly witty as Dorothy Parker, she waves a flag for the dispossessed and the marginalized and gleefully pulls love from behind its romantic facade. She makes the reader laugh out loud while at the same time compelling an uncomfortable self-examination. Plumbing the inner workings of marriage, aging, family dynamics, and the cost of love, her richly sardonic humor and acutely merciless observations may seem gentle, but look again, for they are edged with razors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCelebrating twenty years of rare accomplishment, The Collected Stories introduces American readers to a luminous and unforgettable writer of short fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Counterpoint LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781582432618\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.03w x 1.04d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2002 pg. 1426\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/21\/2002 pg. 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/24\/2002 pg. 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2002 pg. 105\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/08\/2002 pg. 61\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2002 pg. 473\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clare Boylan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39521598177461,"sku":"9781582432618","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4f2cd7f0-855d-4f30-b3c9-866acaf5f7a2.jpg?v=1616505801","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/collected-stories-9781582432618","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}