The things we lose, the things we leave behind : and other stories /
An institutionalised orphan boy in 1950s Ireland sold into servitude as a farm labourer, the Sevillian matador who in a single misstep has fallen into a life of obscurity, a man returning to his island home to see again the child that he abandoned, these are stories about picking up the shattered pi...
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Dublin :
New Island Publishing,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly
- Farmed out
- Are the stars out tonight?
- We're not made of stone
- Goodbye, my Coney Island baby
- Lila
- The matador
- A game of confidence
- Keep well to seaward
- Throwing in the towel
- For old times' sake
- Icebergs
- The things we lose, the things we leave behind.