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W. W. Norton
September 2006
On Sale: September 5, 2006
192 pages
ISBN: 039305716X
EAN: 9780393057164
Hardcover
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Fiction
A new book from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for
celebration, but Matters of Life and Death is more than
that. It is the finest collection yet from a contemporary
master of the form. Beginning with the sudden terror of a family caught up in
shocking sectarian violence, and ending with the whiteout of
an Iowa blizzard and the fear of losing your way very far
from home, this collection is about bonds made and broken,
secret and known. In the extraordinary story "Up the Coast,"
a landscape painter discovers a place that makes her,
finally, feel whole, only to have that communion shattered
by an arbitrary act of aggression that will resonate
throughout her life. Written with effortless skill and empathy, these stories are
hauntingly real. MacLaverty's perfect attention to every
detail, every nuance of idiom and character, remakes the
world for us here on the page.
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