Lazy Eye

Literature & Fiction

MORRISSY, MARY.

Contemporary

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Mother of Pearl (Cape Paperback Original)

JONATHAN CAPE.

The prequel to the Anastasia myth. One of the subtlest and most penetrating of the latest generation of Irish writers.

The pretender

Mother of Pearl

The story of one woman's search for home and family is the tale of the abduction of an infant and revelation of a middle-aged woman who begins to remember her shadow-life as the daughter of a different mother

British & Irish

Scribner

Mary Morrissy, award-winning author of the highly praised first novel Mother of Pearl, offers here a collection of fifteen stories that confirms her place among Ireland's best contemporary writers. Primarily set in the bleak landscapes of modern Ireland, these stories peel away the layers of daily existence, revealing the devastation wrought by the most ordinary of gestures. With a deft hand and a discerning eye, Morrissy writes of private battles waged, past selves, lives measured and remeasured, and of those rare moments of clarity and unobscured vision that grace our lives. In "Rosa", two sisters conspire to perform an unholy nativity. With a mischievous irony, "Divided Attentions" portrays a woman frantically telling her guilty secret to an obscene caller. In the title story, a woman bewildered and misunderstood during a trip abroad begins to comprehend the sum of the small indignities she has undergone. The characters in these stories act out a flawed vision of the world, each seeking redemption and understanding.

A LAZY EYE: Stories

A Lazy Eye: Stories

All the characters in this mesmerizing book begin their journeys on Prosperity Drive. Everything radiates out—often internationally—from this suburban Dublin street, and everything eventually returns to it. It is an Ireland in miniature. Like an exploded novel, Prosperity Drive is laid out in stories, linked by its characters who appear and disappear, bump into each other in chance encounters, and join up again through love, marriage, or memory. While each story is discrete, and stands perfectly alone, when read together they have an extraordinary cumulative effect. Through the central drama of the Elworthy family, the collection has a strong narrative arc, very similar to that of a novel, making explicit to the reader secrets withheld from the characters. A stunningly original construction, this journey in stories is very much like life itself: a series of circles and trajectories, a process of learning how to love and how to lose that love.

Prosperity Drive

United States

Southword 45: New International Writing

Cotter, Patrick

Harsent, David

Treseler, Heather

Ariadne Shaw, Eleanor

Literary

Southword Editions

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