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Shadow Voices

300 Years of Irish Genre Fiction: A History in Stories

By: John Connolly

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Hardcover | 28 October 2021 | Edition Number 1

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1088 Pages

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7.4 x 16.1 x 24.3

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The story of genre fiction - horror, romantic fiction, science fiction, crime writing, and more - is also the story of Irish fiction. Irish writers have given the world Lemuel Gulliver, Dracula, and the world of Narnia. They have produced pioneering tales of detection, terrifying ghost stories and ground-breaking women's popular fiction. Now, for the first time, John Connolly's one volume presents the history of Irish genre writing and uses it to explore how we think about fiction itself.

Deeply researched, and passionately argued, SHADOW VOICES takes the lives of more than sixty writers - by turns tragic, amusing, and adventurous, but always extraordinary - and sets them alongside the stories they have written, to create a new way of looking at genre and literature, both Irish and beyond. Here are vampires and monsters, murderers and cannibals. Here are female criminal masterminds and dogged detectives, star-crossed lovers and vengeful spouses.

Here are the SHADOW VOICES.

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A fascinating glimpse of the way styles and influences echo through generations, begetting seemingly endless variations on what is simple formula. - Observer

This volume challenges a few myths and is worth reading for that pleasure alone. - Sunday Times

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