Desmond Hogan

• Jan-2005
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One of Ireland's most important writers at his finest. Written over a period of twelve years, these stories seem to move nowehere with relentless, slow precision, yet each is as fulfilling and rich with suggestion as a full-scale novel.

• Jan-2006
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Desmond Hogan is an exciting literary talent to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century. This book reaffirms his stature, displaying anew a compressed lyricism, ferocity and sheer prismatic brilliance in these stories. His compelling tales ...

• Oct-2009
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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 world...

• Sep-2011
• / Literary
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Desmond Hogan is one of Ireland’s leading writers. In addition to his novels and stories, he has traveled widely (for various newspapers) to some of the strangest and most fascinating parts of the world. In the past fifteen years, he has visited So...

• Sep-2011
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Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century. Larks’ Eggs affirms that stature. Here, with twenty-two classic stories taken from earlier collections and twelve fresh narratives, Hogan...

• Mar-2013
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‘With forty pounds he went back to England. Curlews cried in the bog next to Ballinasloe station. A taxi-man looked harassed â€" no work maybe. They kissed â€" slenderly. The train left. She walked away.‘ And so Diarmaid O’Hallrahan withdraws f...

• Jun-2013
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Following a crippling depression and institutionalization, the writer "Desmond" wanders from his native Dublin around an increasingly unrecognizable Europe, and as far as the southern United States, assembling a patchwork of small stories, conversati...

• Jun-2013
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There is no doubt that Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century, and perhaps the best introduction to his work is through his magnificent short stories, widely anthologized and prai...

• Mar-2014
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It is the late 1940s, and Sean and Liam, middle-class boys in a small West of Ireland town, share a powerful bond of love and rivalry: each long for the same women. At university together in Dublin, Sean and Liam’s burgeoning sexuality leads them t...

• May-2017
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Here are twelve scintillating fresh tales by one of Ireland's leading writers, who has extended and redefined the tradition of the Irish short story with inimitable verbal force. Embedded in Hogan’s uniquely glancing poetic style, they form capsule...