Bernard Maclaverty

• Oct-1984
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"Bernard MacLaverty’s powerful novel is a love story as affecting and tragic as you could want." -- USA TodayWhen it was first published, Bernard MacLaverty’s masterpiece was hailed by Michael Gorra in the New York Times Book Review as...

• Nov-1984
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• Jul-1992
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“Lamb will move you by the grace of its prose and by its honesty and emotional accuracy. It is not easy to write about innocence in a world like ours but Bernard MacLaverty has done it. This is a beautiful novel.” -- John Gabree, Newsday When Br...

• Mar-1993
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Easy-to-read chapters and black-and-white drawings enhance the story of Andrew, who loves to speak in rhyme, and his grandfather, as they try to cope with Andrew's knack for breaking things and mixing things up....

• Apr-1995
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A rich collection of short stories by one of Ireland's contemporary literary masters. This long-awaited new collection from the noted Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty examines worlds in collision, relationships fragmenting, innocence coming face to fa...

• Jul-1997
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Married love, male friendship, a small boy intruding upon secret adult grief, a husband contemplating infidelity - in these wonderful stories Bernard MacLaverty catches his characters at moments of epiphany, when ordinary life is set alight with sudd...

• Sep-1997
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Prize The luminous novel by one of the finest living Irish writers, which Brian Moore has praised as "in every sense a triumph…moving throughout and ending triumphantly and joyously in its own spec...

• Oct-1999
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Bernard Mac Laverty's beautifully turned stories are full of humour, terse realism and moments of touching or shocking surprise. Nelson plays truant and sees something he wishes he hadn't in the title story, 'A Time to Dance'. In 'Phonefun Limited' S...

• Apr-2002
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A coming-of-age story of a northern Irish boy getting out from under the thumb of mother, church, and country. Set in Belfast in the late sixties, Bernard MacLaverty's new novel takes us into Martin Brennan's last semester of high school, when he fin...

• Sep-2006
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"MacLaverty's tales are poised and beautifully balanced, outward yet intimate, graced by both subtlety and substance."―The Independent

• Sep-2006
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"MacLaverty's tales are poised and beautifully balanced, outward yet intimate, graced by both subtlety and substance." -- The Independent A new book from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but Matters of Life and Death is more than that. ...

• Sep-2006
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• Nov-2013
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Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life's big events: love and loss, separation and violence, death and betrayal. But the stories teem with smaller significant moments too -- priv...

• Aug-2017
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For readers of Colm Toíbín, a moving portrait of a marriage in crisis and a couple’s search for salvation. Sixteen years on from his last novel, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. A re...

• Sep-2021
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• Sep-2021
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A Library Journal Best Book of 2022 in Short Stories A deft and life-affirming collection by a master of the form.”—Sarah Gilmartin, Irish Times A collection of twelve powerful and moving new stories from one of Ireland’s most celeb...

• Sep-2021
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• Jan-2022
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A Library Journal Best Book of 2022 in Short Stories "A deft and life-affirming collection by a master of the form.” -- Sarah Gilmartin, Irish Times A collection of twelve powerful and moving new stories from one of Ireland’s most celebrated writ...

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