Download or read book Finbar s Hotel written by Dermot Bolger and published by Picador (UK). This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven interconnected stories about a Dublin hotel.
Download or read book Ladies Night at Finbar s Hotel written by Dermot Bolger and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror 'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . . But what's it all about? Well, it would be all too easy to give the game away, so let's just say that there's a hilarious reworking of the old immaculate conception theme, a bittersweet confrontation between a daughter and her loopy father, a poignant encounter involving a long-married couple, and a cracking finish . . . it doesn't matter who wrote what: together they've produced a playful, light, highly entertaining book' Irish Times 'Beneath the humour, whimsy and outright craziness, Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel hits at the shallowness of current social pretensions and offers a cautious optimism about women's lives today' Times Literary Supplement
Download or read book Finbar s Hotel written by Dermot Bolger and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an unprecedented collaboration, seven of Ireland's finest writers join in a riotous novel about the last night in the life of a dingy Dublin hotel.
Download or read book Touchy Subjects written by Emma Donoghue and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2016 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sparkling collection of nineteen stories, the bestselling author of Slammerkin returns to contemporary affairs, exposing the private dilemmas that result from some of our most public controversies. A man finds God and finally wants to father a child-only his wife is now forty-two years old. A coach's son discovers his sexuality on the football field. A roommate's bizarre secret liberates a repressed young woman. From the unforeseen consequences of a polite social lie to the turmoil caused by the hair on a woman's chin, Donoghue dramatizes the seemingly small acts upon which our lives often turn. Many of these stories involve animals and what they mean to us, or babies and whether to have them; some replay biblical plots in modern contexts. With characters old, young, straight, gay, and simply confused, Donoghue dazzles with her range and her ability to touch lightly but delve deeply into the human condition.
Download or read book The Detective written by Roderick Thorp and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bestselling book that inspired the hit movie by the same name, starring Frank Sinatra, an apparent suicide forces a PI to reconsider his most famous case Joe Leland returned from World War II with a chest full of medals, but his greatest honor came after he traded his pilot’s wings for a detective’s shield. Catching the Leikman killer made Joe a local hero, but the shine quickly wore off, and it wasn’t long before he left the police force to start his own private agency. Years after his greatest triumph, Joe has a modest income and a quiet life—both of which may soon fall apart. When Colin MacIver dies at the local racetrack, the coroner rules that he took his own life, but his widow knows better. Because MacIver’s life insurance policy doesn’t cover suicide, his wife is left broke, desperate, and afraid for her safety. She hires Leland to find out who could have killed her gentle, unassuming husband—a simple question that will turn this humble city inside out.
Download or read book Yeats Is Dead written by Joseph O'Connor and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yeats is Dead begins with Roddy Doyle and ends with Frank McCourt. In between, thirteen other Irish writers spin an increasingly elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and literary shenanigans in present-day Dublin.
Download or read book Finbar s Hotel written by Dermot Bolger and published by Editions Joëlle Losfeld. This book was released on 1999 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Une nuit à l'hôtel. Dans les années 20, le Finbar's Hotel à Dublin abritait derrière une façade respectable les rencontres furtives entre prostituées, membres du clergé et politiciens. Le soir de sa fermeture, l'hôtel est le théâtre d'événements imprévus. qui réunissent entre autres : un gangster dublinois, un homme cachant dans sa valise une cargaison vivante, une jeune fille aux rêves d'hommes roux, une femme au seuil de la mort ivre d'amour. Pour écrire cette histoire drôle et émouvante, Dermot Bolger a enfermé à l'hôtel sept écrivains puis assemblé leurs travaux dont ce roman est le fruit inattendu et savoureux.
Download or read book Knowledge of Hell written by António Lobo Antunes and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrator of this stark and elegantly translated novel is a psychiatrist named Antnio Lobo Antunes, returning from vacation to his loathed job at Miguel Bombarda Hospital in Lisbon. Over the course of the trip, the narrator's mind ranges over the monstrosities he encountered in the colonial wars in Angola in the 1970s and in his work; through the layering of memories, he draws parallels between the destruction of the war and the questionable care offered to the mentally ill.
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Download or read book The Hidden Room written by Stella Duffy and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is good for Laurie and Martha. They have three great kids, a much-loved home in the countryside, and after years of struggle, Laurie's career as an architect is taking off at last. Everything's perfect. Except, it isn't. Someone is about to walk into their happy family and tear it apart. Laurie has been hiding from him for years. The question is, now that he's found her, can she keep her family safe? And just how far will she go to protect them?
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Download or read book International Who s Who of Authors and Writers 2004 written by Europa Publications and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accurate and reliable biographical information essential to anyone interested in the world of literature TheInternational Who's Who of Authors and Writersoffers invaluable information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world, including many up-and-coming writers as well as established names. With over 8,000 entries, this updated edition features: * Concise biographical information on novelists, authors, playwrights, columnists, journalists, editors, and critics * Biographical details of established writers as well as those who have recently risen to prominence * Entries detailing career, works published, literary awards and prizes, membership, and contact addresses where available * An extensive listing of major international literary awards and prizes, and winners of those prizes * A directory of major literary organizations and literary agents * A listing of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Download or read book Ladies Night at Finbar s Hotel written by Maeve Binchy and published by Harper Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirited mix of pathos and humor, this is a tour of the human experience, told with panache by Ireland's finest modern storytellers."--BOOK JACKET.
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Download or read book Finbar s Hotel written by Dermot Bolger and published by Editions Joëlle Losfeld. This book was released on 1999 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Une nuit à l'hôtel. Dans les années 20, le Finbar's Hotel à Dublin abritait derrière une façade respectable les rencontres furtives entre prostituées, membres du clergé et politiciens. Le soir de sa fermeture, l'hôtel est le théâtre d'événements imprévus. qui réunissent entre autres : un gangster dublinois, un homme cachant dans sa valise une cargaison vivante, une jeune fille aux rêves d'hommes roux, une femme au seuil de la mort ivre d'amour. Pour écrire cette histoire drôle et émouvante, Dermot Bolger a enfermé à l'hôtel sept écrivains puis assemblé leurs travaux dont ce roman est le fruit inattendu et savoureux.
Download or read book I d Kill For That written by Marcia Talley and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each chapter flows smoothly into the next so that it feels like one author wrote this tale. Marcia Talley and her dozen cohorts deserve kudos for this successful project." --Midwest Book Review On the banks of the Truxton River lies Gryphon's Gate, a gated community built by Henry Drysdale where the rich and privileged live, work and play. Tempers flare when Henry's ex decides to develop the adjoining land and environmentalists, developers, residents and the media clash. Then the violence turns ugly--a dead body is found on the golf course and Detective Diane Robards is called in to investigate. Diane's efforts are thwarted at every turn and as she uncovers the secrets behind the serene facade of Gryphon's Gate, she races against the clock to unmask a ruthless killer. Featuring contributions from Gayle Lynds, Rita Mae Brown, Lisa Gardner, Linda Fairstein, Kay Hooper, Kathy Reichs, Julie Smith, Heather Graham, Jennifer Crusie, Tina Wainscott, Anne Perry and Katherine Neville.
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