I occasionally just like to browse the fiction shelves at my
local Morgan County Public Library.
My interest in and respect for Irish fiction goes back to my
undergraduate years as a student of the Irish Easter Rebellion 1916. Reading the collected short stories of Frank
O’Connor gave me amazing insight and empathy toward my Irish émigré in-laws.
Toibin, born in Dublin in 1955, has the same gift for bringing the reader into the atmosphere of life between present and past, fact and myth.
Scribner, 2007, 270 p.
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