Walking the Dog

And Other Stories

By: Bernard MacLaverty

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Paperback | 1 August 1996 | Edition Number 1

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212 Pages

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20.6 x 13.7 x 1.3

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This long-awaited new collection from the noted Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty examines worlds in collision, relationships fragmenting, innocence coming face to face with real life and real death. A Catholic schoolboy playing football has a theological debate with a Protestant policeman; a chess game in Spain is a catalyst for grief and redemption; in the haunting title story a Belfast man out walking his dog is kidnapped at gunpoint.

As always, MacLaverty's writing is vivid, exact, and pellucid, his characters perfectly observed, the surface of the prose deceptively still. It is only after we enter the world of the stories that we begin to make out the huge shapes that move there: loss, love, disappointment, fierce joy. This is a powerful, honest, and moving book by one of the great storytellers of our age.

Industry Reviews

"A consummate storyteller, he reveals the turbulence beneath the deceptive stillness of life... Highly recommended." -- Library Journal "MacLaverty's real talent for dialogue with all of its folly makes these stories a pleasure to read." -- Boston Sunday Globe

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