The News from Dublin: Stories, (Paperback)

<b>From Colm Tóibín, "one of the world's best living literary writers," (<i>The Boston Globe</i>), a brilliant new collection of nine short stories</b><b>--many never before published.</b> <p>Colm Tóibín is a master of the short story, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. Described as "his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power" (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>), he brings to these stories an astonishing clarity and compassion. In "The Journey to Galway," a mother learns of the death of her son, a fighter pilot in WWII, and must travel from Dublin to share the news with his wife and their three now fatherless children. In "Sleep," published in <i>The New Yorker</i>, two lovers part as one of them cannot acknowledge or face his grief and fear after the death of his brother. And in the title story, death, again, is a central character as Maurice Webster travels to Dublin from Enniscorthy to petition the health minister for access to a new drug being tested for tuberculosis. Maurice's younger brother is dying of TB, and this is the only hope. </p><p> Set in Spain, Ireland, and America, these gorgeous stories explore longing, estrangement from family, grief, the pull of the past, and complex, transcendent love. </p><p> This collection includes: <br> - "The Journey to Galway" (originally published in Faber Anthology)<br> - "A Free Man" (new)<br> - "Sleep" (originally published in <i>The New Yorker</i>)<br> - "The News from Dublin" (originally published in Faber Anthology)<br> - "A Sum of Money" (new)<br> - "Barton Springs" (originally published in Marlene Dumas catalogue)<br> - "Summer of '38" (originally published in <i>The New Yorker</i>)<br> - "Five Bridges" (originally published in <i>The New Yorker</i>)<br> - "The Catalan Girls" (new)</p>

• The News from Dublin: Stories, (Paperback)
• Author: Colm Toibin
• ISBN: 9781476785158
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2027-03-23
• Page Count: 304