Re O Laighleis
Autore di Gafa (Irish Edition)
Sull'Autore
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Opere di Re O Laighleis
Aistear intinne 4 copie
Ciorcal Meiteamorfach 2 copie
Aistear intinne 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1953
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ireland
- Luogo di morte
- Sallynoggin, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 22
- Utenti
- 122
- Popolarità
- #163,289
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 27
- Lingue
- 2
A man’s wife dies and he promptly ponders a pistol in a drawer. A woman who pledges two years of celibacy as a devotion to the Virgin Mary is terrorized by her husband for it. A retiring teacher ponders what she missed by not following her love to Canada years earlier. A boy gives his drunken bully of a father a taste of his own. A ridiculous doctor gets his comeuppance. Two women who had been lovers in college are reunited by the funeral of the husband of one - the riskiest story here.
The stories and their morals aren’t subtle and are often simplistic. The lessons are often telegraphed – or are just left sticking out there in plain sight. Sins are punished. Retribution administered. Morality fiction.… (altro)