Country of the Grand

Country of the Grand

by Gerard Donovan (Author)

Synopsis

A young man driving across Ireland with his wife asks her how long she would wait before being with another man if he died. A man is trapped, hidden, in a small changing room by the sea on Galway Bay, as he listens to his friends discuss his wife's infidelity. An anguished young boy and his widowed mother struggle to reconstruct their lost father and husband in their own respective ways. The stories in "Country of the Grand" magnify a New Ireland as it copes with the rewards and pressures of its fresh success: immigration, mid-life crisis, adultery and divorce, a lost sense of place and history, and of course, what to do with all that prosperity.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Aug 2008

ISBN 10: 0571235549
ISBN 13: 9780571235544
Book Overview: Country of the Grand is a stunning and elegiac collection of interrelated stories from Gerard Donovan, the acclaimed author of Julius Winsome and Schopenhauer's Telescope.

Author Bio
Gerard Donovan is the author of the novels Schopenhauer's Telescope, which won the 2004 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and was longlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize, Doctor Salt and, most recently, Julius Winsome, described in the Irish Times as 'a timeless fable of loss, isolation and violence.' Born in Ireland, he currently lives in a former railway station cottage in New York.