Old Swords: And Other Stories

by Desmond Hogan

Overview

These eleven stories by Desmond Hogan, his first publication since Larks’ Eggs: New and Selected Stories (2005), collect newly minted shards of experience focused on the lives of the dreamers and marginalized who populate his imagined worlds. They range in time and place from France, Germany and Italy in the nineteenth century to Ireland of the 1950s and the present day. Their concerns are fragility and identity expressed through the outer semblances of dress and deportment, and inner realities of involuntary memory and the retrieval of shared pasts. Close observation of nature combines with psychological unveilings, much of it in the form of erotic reverie. This bricolage of melded history and a fragmented modernism renders truth-to-experience like no other contemporary voice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781843511441
Publisher:	Lilliput Press, Limited, The
Publication date:	10/13/2009
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.65(h) x (d)

About the Author

Desmond Hogan is the author of The Ikon Maker, A Curious Street, Leaves on Grey, A New Shirt, and A Farewell to Prague. His short-story collection The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea won the 1980 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize; others include Larks' Eggs: New and Selected Stories and House of Mourning and Other Stories. In 1971 he won the Hennessy Literary Award, in 1977 the Rooney Prize for Literature, and in 1991 was awarded the DAAD Fellowship in Berlin. Editions Grasset & Fasquelle in Paris have acquired all his works for translation into French, embarking in 2015 and concluding in 2022.