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and Sarah Purser
is a tour de force of storytelling
he returned to Inishbofin in 1959 and settled for twenty years at Cleggan
His knowledge of local birds and fish was as encyclopaedic and forensic as his grasp of place names
mysticism and spirituality is a perfect introduction to the work of this complex and
Charlie Chaplin's Wishbone Shane Tivenan and Sarah PurserThese twelve masterful short stories are by one of Irelands leading practitioners of the art (previous collections include Adventures in a Bathyscope, 1998, and Lipstick on the Host, 1992). Aidan Mathews is a writer worthy of Joyce, whose condensed language conveys learning, sophistication, true feeling and poignancy. The range of subject matter is conveyed in the story titles: Charlie Chaplins Wishbone, Access, Barber Surgeons, Waking a Jew, Cuba,