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Heaven Lies About Us
Heaven Lies About Us
Apr 20, 2025 12:04 PM

Author:Eugene McCabe

Heaven Lies About Us

In these twelve stories, Eugene McCabe plumbs the soul of the Irishborder counties, where confusion, divided loyalties, and conflict arepart of everyday life. A master of arresting dialogue and intimate characterisation, celebrated as a major playwright and author of one of the most important Irish novels of the last fifty years, McCabe demonstrates his outstanding gift for short fiction in this revelatory and haunting collection.

Reviews

'there is the sublime sweep of McCabe's craggy cadences to sustain you, and he takes an ingenious delight in the mechanics of language'.

—— Alfred Hickling , Guardian

The scenes Denezhkina paints are vividly hued, juicy and mouthwateringly acid... A promising start... Exhilirating

—— New York Times

Irina is the heroine of a generation whose parents were orphaned by Socialism. She has learned a harsh and pitiless version of Capitalism: 'No one owes anybody anything' is the obsessive mantra of her characters

—— La Stampa

Travel writer, biographer, novelist, essayist... Pritchett looks protean, but really his genius is indivisible. He is a teller of stories

—— Martin Amis

Pacy, pithy and full of wonderful, (often humorous) moments

—— Scotsman

Spine-chilling twists and turns - Graham Greene eat your heart out

—— Tatler

Darien Dogs is a bullishly confident and vivacious collection

—— Time Out

Beautifully paced and pitched

—— Independent
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