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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Callaghan, Billy (Author)
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dublin : New Island Publishing, 2013.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.