by Gerard Donovan (Author)
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.
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.