- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 9781529956504
- Length: 304 pages
- Price: £9.99
An Arrow in Flight
byMary Lavin, Colm Toibin (Introducer)
Richard FordMary Lavin’s stories are patient, knowing, richly discriminating and wonderfully memorable. They're important work
New York TimesShe is, to come right out with it, magnificent
Anthony BurgessShe reminds us…what literature is about
Sunday TimesMary Lavin’s stories are a delight. They are delicate, but not too delicate to carry tragedy on one shoulder and comedy on the other
Frank O’ConnorShe fascinates me more than any other of the Irish writers of my generation
SpectatorMary Lavin is keeping the stronghold of the Irish story in first-rate repair
Sunday TimesMary Lavin's prose has the simplicity and glow of time-polished wood
Seamus DeaneCaustic and also lyrical, she sees Ireland, even in its most obscure aspects, with a visionary penetration
New York Times Book Review[Lavin] writes like a dream
Washington PostThese sombre and skilfully written stories describe the tragic dilemmas with which character and nature confront humans everywhere
About Mary Lavin
Mary Lavin was an award-winning writer best known for her short stories. Born in East Walpole, Massachusetts, to Irish parents, she returned to live in Ireland as a child and spent most of her life in County Meath, where many of her stories are set. She was a writer under contract to the New Yorker magazine and received many honours, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, a number of Guggenheim Fellowships and an honorary doctorate the National University of Ireland. She received the title of Saoi from Aosdána and is the first woman writer to have a public space named after her in Dublin.
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