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Where Have You Been?

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099565451

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 232g

  • RRP: £9.99

Where Have You Been?

Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, these stories - Joseph O'Connor's first collection in more than twenty years - offer a gathering of dreamers and lost souls who contend with the confusions of living.

Here are men without women, children parenting parents, residents of the uncertain country that is post-boom Ireland, emigrants, travellers, cheats and lovers, families, friends and foes.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099565451

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 232g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • "A masterclass display of versatility...mood and style in these richly concise, crisply written pieces are confidently varied, too...adding vitality to the virtuosity is a terrific ear for idiomatic speech"

    Sunday Times Books of the Year

  • "O’Connor’s first collection of short stories for 20 years reasserts a mastery of the form... An exhilarating array of sharp dialogue and biting one-liners... A fine compassionate collection"

    Irish Independent

  • "Full of lovely, delicate perceptive stuff. Joseph O'Connor is in the tradition of masterly Irish writers of short fiction"

    The Scotsman

  • "Joseph O'Connor's first short story collection in more than 20 years is worth the wait"

    Emma Hagestadt, Independent

  • "Playful but also at times sorrowful; it allows in great quantities of life, offering the dramas at times a dark edge but also the full glory of our earthly confusion."

    Colm Toibin, Irish Times

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About the Author

Joseph O'Connor

Joseph O’Connor was born in Dublin. His books include eight previous novels: Cowboys and Indians (Whitbread Prize shortlist), Desperadoes, The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European novel of the year), Redemption Falls, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book Novel 2011) and The Thrill of it All. His fiction has been translated into forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for outstanding achievement in literature and in 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. www.josephoconnorauthor.com

Joseph O'Connor

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