Explores the territory of the divided self. Through the story of the kidnapping of a baby, the notion of personal history as received fiction is examined. Using the device of a split narrative, the novel asks such questions as: what makes a family?; what keeps it together?; and what tears it apart?
A stunning collection of short stories, rich in mood and atmosphere, by one of Ireland's best contemporary literary writers, winner of a 1995 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and author of the glowingly received debut novel, Mother of Pearl. When the British edition of A Lazy Eye appeared, Literary Review proclaimed: "Another first-class Irish ...
Berlin 1920, intent on suicide a young woman is saved from drowning, but refuses to speak or give clues about her identity. Two years later she claims to be Anastasia and lives with that conviction until her death in 1984. Morrissy has created a fictional history for Franziska Schanzkowska who successfully donned the mantle of the doomed princess.
A woman confesses her guilty secret to an obscene caller; a daughter trades with God for her father's life; a family enacts an unholy nativity. The characters in these stories, aggrieved, guilty, betrayed, seek redemption with disturbing and savage consequences. By the author of "Mother of Pearl".
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