Bibliograph

Blank pages and other stories, Bernard MacLaverty

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Blank pages and other stories, Bernard MacLaverty

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Blank pages and other stories

Responsibility statement

Bernard MacLaverty

Summary

Blank Pages is a collection of twelve extraordinary new stories that show the emotional range of a master. 'Blackthorns', for instance, tells of a poor out-of-work Catholic man who falls gravely ill in the sectarian Northern Ireland of 1942 but is brought back from the brink by an unlikely saviour. The most recently written story here is the harrowing but transcendent 'The End of Days', which imagines the last moments in the life of painter Egon Schiele, watching his wife dying of Spanish flu - the world's worst pandemic, until now

Table Of Contents

A love picture: Belfast 1940 -- Glasshouses -- Soup mix -- Searching: Belfast 1971 -- Night work -- The fairly good samaritan -- The end of days: Vienna 1918 -- The dust gatherer -- Wandering -- Blank pages -- Sounds and sweet airs -- Blackthorns: County Derry 1942

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