The Dogs of Inishere

The Dogs of Inishere collects stories from across Alannah Hopkin's thirty-year career as a fiction and travel writer. The stories presented here move from adolescence to middle age, sensitive always to the particular social, emotional, and intellectual challenges of the different phases of a life. An adolescent girl bristles against the gendered assumptions and expectations of mid-60s London. A young writer struggles to commit fully to the artist's life. A group of pub regulars in a sleepy seaside town observe the quiet disappoints of love and marriage. Along the way, Hopkin's stories also wrestle and reckon with numerous literary influences, including Austen, Byron, Poe, Wilde, Lowry, and B.S. Johnson.

“"These are mostly quiet stories about mostly quiet places, offering us slice-of-life glimpses into sharply wrought settings...But Hopkin knows enough not to stay in the same pitch for each story, and some of her strongest writing here comes when she departs from the more journalistic offerings. These are mostly quiet stories about mostly quiet places, offering us slice-of-life glimpses into sharply wrought settings. But Hopkin knows enough not to stay in the same pitch for each story, and some of her strongest writing here comes when she departs from the more journalistic offerings."- Kirkus Review”

A warmly rendered collection.

[A]n impressive collection, the clear, confident style allowing each central crisis to be revealed with rewarding clarity and directness.

Alannah Hopkin is a novelist, travel writer, and critic. She has published two novels, A Joke Goes a Long Way in the Country and The Out-haul, as well as numerous travel guides to Ireland, and she regularly reviews books for the Irish Examiner. The Dogs of Inishere is her first story collection.

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