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Short Stories
Liam O'Flaherty

“A marvellously visual writer who prints his descriptions on the retina…”
- The Guardian

This wonderful collection of short stories displays O’Flaherty’s great range, from a love story between a wild drake and a domestic duck to the comedy of the appalling Patsa delivering the contents of his golden belly under the influence of a cataclysmic purge to the fading old man sitting by the roadside who fails to recognise the old woman.

“This collection is a gallery of human emotions, embracing a clutch of huge eccentrics, sweet and sour remembrances of distant youth and vivid portrait of rural Ireland…a worthy representation of an unflinching lyric writer.”
- The Sunday Times