ISBN: 9781035024865
Format: Paperback
Pub Date: 01/07/2025
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post C 1945), Short Stories, Ireland, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / City Life
Imprint: Picador
Price: $22.99
Pages: 160
'These are some of the wildest, arresting, just plain brilliant short stories I've read in a long time.' Roddy Doyle, author of The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Bridget O'Connor was one of the great short story writers of her generation. She had a voice that was viscerally funny and an eye for both the glaring reality and the absurdity of the everyday.
In After A Dance, we meet a selection of O'Connor's most memorable characters often living on the margin of their own lives: from the anonymous thief set on an unusual prize to the hungover best man clinging to what he's lost to the unrepentant gold-digger who always comes out on top. From unravelling narcissists to melancholy romantics all human life is here - at its best and at its delightful worst.
Author Information
Bridget O’Connor was born in London in 1961, and began her career as a writer while working in a building-site canteen. In her spare moments she penned darkly comic and excruciatingly well observed short stories, one of which, ‘Harp’, won the 1991 Time Out short story prize. Two collections followed, Here Comes John (1993) and Tell Her You Love Her (1997). In 2001 her stage play The Flags was performed at the Manchester Royal Exchange before being produced in Liverpool, Dublin, Belfast, Slovenia, and Australia. Like so much of her writing, it was praised as much for being “sharp and gritty” as for its “sublimely drawn” characters and situations (The Guardian).
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