Moving About the Place: Short Stories by Evelyn Conlon PAPERBACK 9781780733104

Name: Moving About the Place: Short Stories by Evelyn Conlon PAPERBACK 9781780733104
Brand: Colourpoint Creative Ltd

Colourpoint Creative Ltd

Moving About the PlaceShort Stories\nAuthor(s): Evelyn Conlon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Colourpoint Creative Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Blackstaff Press Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781780733104, 978-1780733104\nSynopsis\nThis collection of eleven stories by one of Irelands best writers is a compelling exploration of what comes from moving about the place.\n\nIn these stories, Evelyn Conlon vividly imagines her characters all over the world: Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Italy, Monaco, in a house with two drills of vegetables in Skerries. A couple spend their lives wandering around the equator because of a lie they told during anti-apartheid days; one person holds out in a border-straddling tree; a woman from Hiroshima makes the decision to get pregnant; an Irishwoman attempts to assassinate Mussolini, another fights for women's suffrage in Australia.\n\nBrilliantly written, witty, and full of the sharp observation for which Conlon is well known, Moving About the Placebrings together some on