Shine/Variance
$41.04
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2021
Summary
A sharp and insightful debut short story collection about the pitfalls of ordinary life.
“Great, beautiful little studies of unspoken fear and longing and love, told with a sure-footed delicacy rare in a debut.” - Sarah Moss, Irish Times
“An exciting, original, and very welcome new voice.” - Donal Ryan
“These are startling, adventurous and often wonderful stories. I loved this collection.” - Roddy Doyle
A wife yearns to escape the tight-fisted confines…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784744205 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784744204 |
| Author: | Stephen Walsh |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Chatto & Windus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 242g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 135mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
Stephen Walsh writes of the complexities of family life with insight and humour. The most powerful new collection I’ve read in some years
Great, beautiful little studies of unspoken fear and longing and love, told with a sure-footed delicacy rare in a debut. Walsh is playful and often funny… Walsh’s voices are small but strong, his triumphs and tragedies no less haunting for their intimate scale – Sarah Moss * Irish Times *
These are startling, adventurous and often wonderful stories. I loved this collection – Roddy Doyle
Immensely readable… the collection’s sharpness, poetics and wit make for an immensely pleasurable read… [Walsh] looks to be a writer of great promise – Niamh Donnelly * Irish Independent *
Stephen Walsh writes of the complexities of family life with insight and humour. The most powerful new collection I’ve read in some years – John Boyne
Hugely original… I loved these zany, thought provoking stories and felt empathy with most of the protagonists – Sue Leonard * Irish Examiner *
An exciting, original, and very welcome new voice. Stephen Walsh draws unexpected beauty from the familiar, the tragic, the darkly comic situations any of us could find ourselves in, composing perfect little symphonies from the haphazard chords of existence. He is a witty, insightful and very skilled writer, and the voices in this collection sing from the page – Donal Ryan
Each of the stories packs a particular emotional punch but this is punctuated by humour… Shine/Variance is a hugely accomplished debut from a writer who sees beauty, struggle, and redemption in the everyday
– Paul Ring * Irish Examiner *Heartbreakingly real characters dealing with everyday hurts and misunderstandings – Orna Mulcahy * The Gloss *
Stephen Walsh’s first collection is full of assured originality and freshness - a new writer much to be welcomed – Bernard MacLaverty
Stephen Walsh’s writing is at once original, sharp and funny. The richness of his insight and storytelling fits wonderfully into the breadth and depth of Irish writing today – Anne Griffin, author of When All Is Said
Stephen Walsh
Stephen Walsh lives in Dublin and works in IT. He started writing seriously in 2018. Since then his stories have been shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize, Royal Society of Literature V. S. Pritchett Short Story Award, the RTE Francis MacManus Story Competition, Fish Short Story Prize, longlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards and published in The White Review, The Stinging Fly and broadcast on RTE Radio. His first book was Shine, Variance, a collection of stories. Complex Fracture is his first novel.
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