The Hill Bachelors
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670893737 (0670893730)
Publish date: October 9th 2000
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 245
Edition language: English
bookshelves: radio-4, play-dramatisation, summer-2013, published-2000, shortstory-shortstories-novellas Recommended for: BBC radio listeners Read on June 03, 2013 BBC BLURB: Paulie has returned home for the funeral of his father. A man he barely knew. The remote farm is on a boreen, high up in th...
BBC BLURB: Paulie has returned home for the funeral of his father. A man he barely knew. The remote farm is on a boreen, high up in the hills, a place he hasn't been back to in many years. As his brothers and sisters arrive home for the funeral, the question on everyone's mind is - 'What will happen...
This is a collection of short stories set either in the author's native Ireland, or else in England, his later home, with one set in France. He is regarded as a master of the short story, and it's true that each is a little masterpiece of prose, with a skillfully drawn set of characters, an intrigui...