| This collection of thirteen stories by DesmonclHogan confirms his talent as one of the lead-ing contemporary Irish writers. Whereas Des-mond Hogan s first collection of stories, THEDIAMONDS AT THE BOTTOM OF THESEA dealt with the outsider, the vagabond,the local eccentric, this one is less generalizedand more private, often agonizingly so. Thefirst story, The Mourning Thief, places thecollection in context. A young exile returnsfrom England for Christmas. How can he tellhis dying father that violence is wrong whenthe substance of his father s life is memoriesof 1916? The theme is developed in the sec-ond story. A soldier back from Korea, tempo- rarily visiting Ireland in the fifties, wins the hearts of two young Irish girls. But his mind is savaged by memories of violence and he goes |
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